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 Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 2:45 pm Post subject: Brake lines filling |
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I'M sure someone out there has a trick to fill those matco brake lines with brake fluid. I tried pumping the oil from the bleeder on the caliper with my hand oiler pump but din't make it. What do you guys use to do that? Is there an existing tool or do we have to make one?
Jack
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akflyer
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| Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 2:58 pm Post subject: Re: Brake lines filling |
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That is how I fill them. Just did it last week on a new install. Make sure the bleeder is not plugged off with grime in the end.
AHHHH one other thing to check. Did you by chance rebuild your masters? If so, the little rubber pad you have to install and sand down did not get sanded down enough and it wont let the fluid flow. I did this TWICE before I figured it out. They give you a figure to sand it down to and I was just a couple thousandths over that so I figured what the heck, close enough. Wrong. Gotta be on the money with that one.
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Glenn Horne
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| Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 3:35 pm Post subject: Brake lines filling |
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Did you have the cylinder bleeder screw out?
GLENN HORNE
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Lynn Matteson
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| Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 4:48 pm Post subject: Brake lines filling |
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When pumping from the wheel cylinder, make sure that the bleeder
screw is on the BOTTOM. To any car mechanic, it looks backwards, but
it is the only way to bleed from the wheel cylinder back to the
master cylinder(s). When I first got my plan, I thought some dummy
got the bleeder screws on the wrong end of things, so when all else
fails "read the directions" and sure enough the directions were
right...bleeders go on the bottom, so the air is forced out the lines
and back to the master cyls. The air must/will travel upwards, so if
there's a pocket where the air can stop off "for a quickie" it will,
and you'll have a spongy pedal.
Lynn Matteson
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On Aug 5, 2009, at 6:41 PM, rosane beaule wrote:
| Quote: | I'M sure someone out there has a trick to fill those matco brake
lines with brake fluid. I tried pumping the oil from the bleeder on
the caliper with my hand oiler pump but din't make it. What do you
guys use to do that? Is there an existing tool or do we have to
make one?
Jack
Kitfox 4-Rotax 912
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Roger Lee
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| Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 5:30 am Post subject: Re: Brake lines filling |
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Here is what I use. From Ace Hardware for about $10. It is a small bug pressure sprayer. You pour the brake fluid in and pump it up. I used to use an oil can, but this is so much faster and easier. You slip the plastic tube over the nipple, loosen the nipple and pressure the lever. Air pressure forces it at a fast rate through the system for filling and takes all bubbles with it. I put a plastic water bottle on the other end with another tube at the reservoir to catch the over flow from the flush. Piece of cake.
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