<VV> 69 brake system diagram?

Louis Armer carmerjr at mindspring.com
Wed Sep 1 00:22:15 EDT 2010


Obviously the Coffee was either "Java" or "Expresso" 
.................. The only thing that concerns me is maybe the 
reason you never heard from him again is his brakes got the "jitters" 
and well ........... as Paul Harvey use to say 
............... >:-} >:-} >:-} >:-}

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At 12:09 AM 9/1/2010, you wrote:
>He had been elk hunting around Ouray, CO and broke a brake line to the right
>rear.  He ended up crimping the broken line.  He then filled the brake
>system up by pouring coffee from his thermos.  Got them half ass bled and
>proceeded to drive from 10 to 12 thousand feet down to Montrose which is
>around 5000' with three wheel brakes and a fluid that would boil at much
>less than 212 deg F.
>
>I repaired the line and he didn't want me to disassemble everything and get
>the coffee out.  I put a the pressure bleeder on with no fluid in it and
>blew all the coffee out I could. I then filled up the bleeder with brake
>fluid and bleed at least a quart of fluid through the system.  It had a good
>pedal when he drove away.  I never heard back from him.
>
>dp
>
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