Re: Flushing Brake Fluid

["Ian Lomax" <ilomax@domain.elided>]

>From: jack@domain.elided (Jack Hagerty)
>Subject: Re: Flushing Brake Fluid

>>From: Scott Fisher <sefisher@domain.elided>

>>One of the things I learned was that Alfas with dual-circuit braking
>>systems are bled in a slightly different way from single-circuit cars.
>>I'm not sure when the changeover happened at Alfa; in most cars it was
>>around 1968, so your '71 *probably* has the dual-circuit master
>>cylinder.
>
>Actually, Scott, in '71 Alfa may have still had the dual single-circuit
>master cylinders. I don't remember exactly when they got rid of that
>abortion, but it had two master cylinders, each with its own little vacuum
>booster.  It may have been gone by '71. I know it was still around in '70.

That "abortion" was gone in 1971.  The '71 brakes are pretty much identical to
the '74 brakes.

Cheers,
Ian Lomax
Ann Arbor, MI
2 71 Spiders
88 75 3.0
Former 74 Spider & Berlina

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