Re: Brake bleeding question...

[John Erickson <hombre@elp.rr.com>]

I have a vacuum bleeder that I dearly love.  In the process of bleeding the 
brakes, I suck in a lot of air around the bleeder screws.  I don't know if 
new screws would seal better, but I sorta doubt it.  At any rate, I think 
that's your problem.

John
87 16v
El Paso


At 06:54 PM 12/20/2001 -0500, Mardak wrote:
>I've been bleeding brakes the sloppy way (without a collector hose) for
>years, and never had any problems.  Last night I decided to do it the
>politically correct way, with a clear piece of tubing on the bleeder
>valve.  The problem: a single bubble appeared right after I cracked the
>valve open each time! I only did the two rears, and they were both the
>same.  I bled a pint through each side (pass. side first), and still
>got that little bubble...
>
>Could a bit of air be getting by the bleeder valve each time I crack it
>loose?  Is this normal?  The brakes seemed fine afterwards, so I'm
>assuming I got all the air out...  But maybe there's a shitload of air
>in the lines and I just haven't bled them enough...
>
>Thanks,
>
>   Mark - spoken after EVERY brake job: "I really should build that
>power bleeder for NEXT time" :-)
>
>
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