Eastwood's tubing and flaring tools are KD tolls and can be purchased a lot
cheaper elswhere as with most of there items.
Paul A. Schmidt
-----Original Message-----
From: Lars Larson 56 Plymouth <LARSPAINTR@xxxxxxx>
To: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 4:18 PM
Subject: [FWDLK] tool source-tubing bend/flare, pitt. arm puller, brake
bleeder MUST HAVE
>And the beat goes on...
>Try The eastwood company.
>1 800 345 1178
>and
>1 800 820 9042 in Canada
>These are 96 prices, better add 15%- Pittman arm puller is $27, tie rod
>puller $65, various tubing benders and flaring devices, all sorts of
buffing
>compound and wheels, and that jack of all trades the MityVac.
>If U R tired of doing that two man bleeding chore each spring, and to more
>than one car, U need the MityVac.
>You use hand pumped vacuum to PULL the fluid from M Cyl thru the wheel cyl
>and into a small reservoir- no more Mayonaise jars.
>and
>if You get the vacuum/pressure guage you can check various items on your
>modern cars that are vacuum operated, such as heater controls, egr valves,
>etc. Or with your car running you can apply vacuum to your vac advance and
>see or hear what it is doing, be it old or new car.
>They also have a simple thingy that allows U to invert a quart or pint of
>brake fluid over your master cylinder (check for clearance first!!!) and
now
>you need not replentish the master cyl as you bleed each wheel. yes takes
a
>bit to get used to but I have used MityVac for about 4 years now and its a
>MUST HAVE.
>For my 56 single non power brakes I hadda modify one of their cover plate
for
>the automatic fill device for master cyl but it works fine, just needed to
>relocate a hole.
>I did save a few bucks since I bot it at Barrie Canada meet as EAstwood was
>closing up their booth.
>Some of the larger auto supply stores might have em too. There is a full
>professional line of mityvac pumps but U want the hobbyist grade. Yes it
is
>a plastic pump but Dor 3 and Dot 5 have no effect on the plastic.
>Watchit if U order a Mityvac. There is a 'professional' version for about
>$70, it may include the guage and some other items. If U order the basic
>pump, it will do your brake bleeding and some misc. Order the vac/pressure
>guage after U get their catalog, likewise the automatic master cyl filler
>(basically just a special cap for your fluid bottle and 3 various sized
>adapter caps that replace the std m,cyl cover.
>This allows U to order ala carte....
>L.
>And I can vouch for both Eastwood and Mityvac company, tho Mityvac may be a
>tad slow. You can probably find better prices than Eastwood BUT they gots
>the goods!
>
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