(Banghead) RE: Master Cylinder - WTF?

[julie at menloparkrandd.com (julie@menloparkrandd.com)]

GD Ben. % identical posts? Email stuttering?

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ben [mailto:vwtype53@yahoo.com]
>Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 11:31 PM
>To: 'Daun Yeagley', scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Re: (Banghead) RE: Master Cylinder - WTF?
>
>Probably a silly thought, but are you sure the brake bleed valves are free of dirt/blockage?
>
>I'm a really big fan of the pressure bleeder... bought one last year and love it. I can bring it
>down sometime for you to try. I found that forcing the fluid from the reservoir to each wheel
>seems better than using vacuum. The vacuum, however, should still work... so it sounds like
>something else is wrong.
>
>Ben
>
>
>
>--- Daun Yeagley <vwdaun@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>> --- Allyn <amalventano1@tds.net> wrote:
>> 
>> > So, do yourself a favor and pick one of these up at your
>> > local flaps:
>> > http://www.jeephorizons.com/tech/brake_bleed.html
>> > This turns brake bleeding into a one person job. You
>> > connect it to the bleeder, draw fluid through until air
>> > free, close the
>> > bleeder, and move onto the next wheel. The only concern
>> > is drawing the reservoir dry, and to compensate for that,
>> > put a tranny
>> > fluid nozzle on the brake fluid bottle and invert it into
>> > the reservoir - it will auto-maintain reservoir level at
>> > the bottom of the
>> > nozzle opening.
>> 
>> So I bought one the night before you sent this. I've
>> hooked it up per instructions and....
>> 
>> ...I can't seem to get any fluid through it. Sure, I can
>> get fluid and bubbles if I'm not getting a tight seal, but
>> seal off the air leaks around the bleeder screw? Nope. 
>> Nothing.
>> 
>> This is SOOO aggravating. I really NEED to have the car on
>> the road in the next couple days, but I'm going bald from
>> attempting to do it.
>> 
>> Now what do I do?
>> 
>> 
>> Daun Yeagley - Wilmington Ohio
>> '81 Scirocco S (Deiter) '86 Scirocco 8v
>> '88 Scirocco Slegato (Gino!) '88 Scirocco 16v
>> '96 Passat GLX Wagon '56 Cessna 172
>> The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts - Ehrlich's Law.
>> 
>> 
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