bleeding brakes *

["Hugh & Therese" <hugtrees@xxxxxxxx>]

Kerry,

This seems to be a wonderful solution.  Simple and almost elegant.  Thanks
so much.  I look forward to trying it and will report back on my success.  I
had not been able to concieve of such a "pressure" system method myself.
What a phenomenal internet community we have here!

Hugh

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kerry Pinkerton" <pinkertonk@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 5:36 AM
Subject: Re: IML: bleeding brakes *


> Hugh, there is a relatively simply process for pressure bleeding your
> system that will ensure NO air is in the system.  Get a small pump up
garden
> sprayer. (I think I gave 12 bucks for mine at Home Depot) Find a extra
> master cylinder cap, drill a hole in it and put some type of hose stem on
it
> that you can adapt to the garden sprayer hose.  Fill the garden hose with
> fresh brake fluid and give it a few pumps.  Then start cracking the
bleeder
> valves.  The fluid will be pushed through the lines under pressure and no
> air should remain.
>
> This is easy with two people but do-able alone.  It doesn't take much
> pressure.
>
> I did this on my 54 so I could remote fill the master cylinder which was
> under the fragile carpet.  I just put a vacuum cap on the end of the
> modified cap when finished.
>
> KerryP
> Patch panels fabricated
> Pinkertonk@xxxxxxxxx
> dte.net/57imperial
> Imperials -- 50 Limo, 57 roadster, 61's, 64, 68 Convert, 73, a 66 300 and
a
> bunch of lesser marques
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Hugh & Therese <hugtrees@xxxxxxxx>
> To: Imperial Mailing List <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 12:17 AM
> Subject: IML: bleeding brakes *
>
>
> > * Read with a cockney accent for full effect
> >
> > Intending to dive the Imperial on Sunday I backed it out of the garage
and
> > washed it.  I cannot remember the last time I washed it, so it was kind
of
> > nice to reacquaint my knuckles with all its nooks, crannies and
crevices.
> > Things got a little hectic and I ended up not using it and it stayed on
my
> > short but steep driveway until around 10:00 PM.  Oh, you can only
imagine
> my
> > joy when I restarted it to move it back into the garage to find I had no
> > brakes.  I did when I left the garage, which is level, of course.
> >
> > The friend who helped with the brakes last year, of whom some of you do
> not
> > have the highest opinion, and I had discussed the still less than
> acceptable
> > braking I was getting from the car.  I have only tried to bleed and
adjust
> > the brakes once since last year.  No air was found, but a one or two
shoes
> > needed to be adjusted, now the new shoes had seated.  We concluded there
> was
> > indeed still air in the line and that what we would have to do is jack
up
> > the rear end for a few days and let the bubbles rise through the fluid
of
> > their own accord so we could try to expel them once and for all.
> Yesterdays
> > impromptu experiment hopefully indicates that the idea just might work.
> So,
> > when rain has moved out of the forecast, and both Mark and I can find
some
> > time in our crowded schedules, I will park it outside, nose down, and
see
> if
> > the trapped air cannot be coaxed out of the system.
> >
> > If we should fail I do not know what to do next.  Since two professional
> > shops and countless hours of amateur labor have not managed to resolve
the
> > cars poor brakes, I am left with a rather obvious but unpalatable
> > alternative.
> >
> > Hugh
> >
> >
> >
> >