<VV> Re-defining the 'coffee brake'

[Charles Lee]

This does re-define the 'coffee brake' doesn't it ?

Charlie


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Lee" <Chaz at ProperProper.com>
To: "'Virtual Vairs'" <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 12:16 AM
Subject: Re: <VV> 3-wheeled coffee brake system ?


> Hmmm...
>
> There are a few reasons you may not have heard back from him ? ...
>
> Charlie
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dennis Pleau" <dpleau at wavecable.com>
> To: "'Virtual Vairs'" <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 9:09 PM
> Subject: Re: <VV> 69 Corvair brake system story ?
>
>
> 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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