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
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----- 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
>
>
>
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