<VV> pressure bleeder

Ron ronh at owt.com
Mon May 9 14:37:42 EDT 2005


I never recycle dirty brake fluid, always replenishing the MC with fresh, 
clean fluid.
RonH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harry Yarnell" <hyarnell1 at earthlink.net>
To: <NicolCS at aol.com>
Cc: "corvair" <virtualvairs at skiblack.com>
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: <VV> pressure bleeder


> I'm with Craig on this one. I like the Mighty Vac the best. And yes, the
> bubbles that are seen in the clear suction hose by air leakage around the
> bleeder screw is the only disadvantage. I suck (watch it!) till there's a
> cupfull of fluid, so I know the line is purged. When using silicon fluid, 
> I
> DON'T dump the sucked fluid back into the MC, as silicon fluid aerates 
> VERY
> easily. I let it sit a day or so to let all the air bubbles escape, THEN 
> put
> it back in the bottle. DOT 3 doesn't do this.
>
> I've a homemade pressure bleeder that pressurizes the MC reservoir with
> compressed air, but found that leakage around the MC cover to be a pain,
> unless I use only a pound or two of pressure.
>
> Harry Yarnell
> perryman garage and orphanage
> perryman, MD
> hyarnell1 at earthlink.net
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <NicolCS at aol.com>
> To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>; <ricorvair at cox.net>
> Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 1:54 PM
> Subject: <VV> pressure bleeder
>
>
>> Just a thought... I have a regular commercial pressure bleeder and also a
>> hand-held mity-vac that came with a little bleeder reservoir.  I  always
> use the
>> Mity-vac.
>
>
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