RE: leaking brake bleeder screw

[Zamani Zambri <zzambrimail@domain.elided>]

Karl (and all),

Thanks for the answers. Fortunately the wilwoods have the bleeders on a
sperate brass fitting which goes then threads into the caliper. So even
if you strp the brass fitting, you won't destroy the caliper. $8 will
get you a set of 4 fittings and 4 bleed screws.

You are correct. The "male" tapered end of the bleedscrew when pressed
against the "femaled" tapered end of the brass fitting will stop the
fluid flow, not the threads.

I changed one of the brass fittings as the tapered end was
missing/broken. Now it seems ok.

As for the slight freeplay/spongy brakes, a 75 Turbo owner with similar
front suspension and brake setup said he took apart the master cylinder
and adjusted some threaded pin in it. Too late to do that now since
track event is this weekend. I'll bleed the brakes again one more time
before that.

Thanks for all your help.

Zamani
'87 Milano 3.0
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