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Re: Brake Master Cylinder Bleeding Issue

Subject: Re: Brake Master Cylinder Bleeding Issue
by jhammons01 on 2009/6/8 1:10:19

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bogus wrote:
I think you are over complicating the process, John.

I last did a bench bleed about a year ago for bastet's car. The idea behind it is simple - so much air builds up within the master cylinder itself, that if you try to on car bleed it, you will be there forever undoing it.

I didn't have any issues with the master on car, either.

I think I nailed it when I felt the master wasn't assembled correctly. And no matter how he bled the system, that problem would have existed regardless. As it is, bench bleeding found it before putting it on the car.

I'm trying to over simplify it.

I don't think the Pump, Release, step is explained well enough and people aren't pumping enough through or getting back wash by letting the pedal loose while the Bleeder is still open....

I do know this...and I'd be the first to listen as I make plenty of mistakes...but the brake bleed process always leads to these types of chats......It almost takes me longer to type it out than it would to bleed one.

So there has to be a disconnect somewhere between what I am doing versus what others are doing. Even CentralCoaster has a difference of opinion than I do on bleeding....yet I can bleed one in 20 minutes...and is seems the last three fixer up cars I have gotten all needed Master Cylinders....

And getting a miss-assembled MC is different altogether.

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