Re: Brake bleeding

[Curt Cleavinger <rcleavin@domain.elided>]

At 09:56 PM 5/26/99 +0000, John A. Landry wrote:
>LATE BREAKING NEWS: Curt Cleavinger <rcleavin@domain.elided> wins the 40
>million dollar lottery and says:
>
>>I've bled the brakes on the
>>Scout and Travelall at least 3 times without problems, and for 
>>some reason I'm having terrible troubles getting all the air out
>>(even with the Russell bleeder screws) - I'm starting on my 4th
>>gallon of brake fluid.
>
>Curt,
>
>What makes you think you're not getting all the air out?  I'm wondering if
>you're just mistaken and you have gotten all the air out.  It takes very
>little fluid to force all the air out.
Well the pedal goes all the way to the floor with very little resistance,
and the brake warning light comes on if the ignition is on. If I continue
pumping, I can get some resistence and the light goes off. Why, you think
it's another problem? The rear disks? I know I need to go with a master
cylinder and proportioning valve that are made for disks on all four 
corners, but I thought that was just a matter of the old 'rear tires
locking up first' issue (at least for the proportioning valve). Is
the master cylinder just not pumping enough fluid to move the rear 
calipers enough?

Later, 
 Curt
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