Re: [ihc] Brake Questions-Scout Diesel Hybrid

["Joseph Shaw, II" <josephshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> ---There is a pressure relief button on the front of the proportioning
valve
> that needs to be depressed with your thumb (not* a mechanical device,
doing
> so will damage it) while you bleed the front brakes. Remove the brake
> warning switch from the top center of the proportioning valve and bleed
the
> brakes using the relief button. Takes one more person to help bleed the
> brakes, but it will allow full travel of the fluid in the calipers before
> the front is shut off by the proportioning valve thinking the system has a
> leak.
>
> ---Thank you,
> -T.R.E.Jr.
> -`73 Scout II (StoneThrower)
> -`51 Farmall H (Heinz)
> -`49 IH fridge (presently unnamed and in need of a compressor)
> -`49 Plymouth Special Deluxe 4-door Sedan (Papapalooza)

Thanks, TRE, but I still need to know IF I should even have a proportioning
valve with this braking system!!!  That is the main question!  I had
forgotten about that little relief switch, but would have remembered when I
got to that point!  Thanks for the reminder!

Michael