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Yet More Brakes – Getting Like Deja Vue (Unfortunately)
Created on 2007-01-27 18:19:00
Well since it was 53F on Friday and predicted to be 20F on Sunday I started work on Friday night putting the brake master back into place. It went back in somewhat easier than it came out, or, it may simple be that as I am getting more familiar with this area of the car things are a little easier. John did give me some tips and the primary point was to make sure that all bolts for the pedal box were started before tightening anything down. Having got the master back in I started to try bleeding but there didn’t seem to be much fluid at the rear of the car and I couldn’t get much if any pressure at the pedal. Even using my bleeding vacuum tool I couldn’t really get and fluid through and thought that was rather odd. Still, since everything with the brakes has been pretty unusual not really much surprises me with this job now.
So Saturday it’s still above freezing, just, and I decide to carry on with my efforts. I checked the pressure switch position and tried to make sure the sliding mechanism was in the middle and again check the rear brakes. No fluid. Most odd. At this point I pulled the rear hard line from the pressure switch and little if no brake fluid came out. Now that is odd!
So I decided I would try my in car bench bleed of the master cylinder again and attached the plastics tubes and held them in place with the clothes pegs. Using the pedal I press away and sure enough absolutely nothing is coming through the rear hard line. So I took off the hard line and check it wasn’t blocked and it wasn’t. Crap! No other choice but to pull the master cylinder again and probably just start again by putting in the new one that had arrived. So that’s what I did – I removed and swapped in the new master cylinder. Since I don’t have a bench or vice I didn’t try to bench bleed the new master but did it in the car using the plastic hose attached to the hard lines coming from the master. This seemed to work quite well and did a good job of getting the master primed. I then hooked up the hard lines and was quickly getting fluid at the rear brakes again. I bleed all wheels and tried to get pressure on the pedal but that seemed to come and go. As I said somewhat deja vue. Figuring that I must be doing something wrong on the bleeding I just went ahead and fully bolted up the pedal box and the master cylinder and will resume as soon as I can perhaps enlist some more onsite help.
So Saturday it’s still above freezing, just, and I decide to carry on with my efforts. I checked the pressure switch position and tried to make sure the sliding mechanism was in the middle and again check the rear brakes. No fluid. Most odd. At this point I pulled the rear hard line from the pressure switch and little if no brake fluid came out. Now that is odd!
So I decided I would try my in car bench bleed of the master cylinder again and attached the plastics tubes and held them in place with the clothes pegs. Using the pedal I press away and sure enough absolutely nothing is coming through the rear hard line. So I took off the hard line and check it wasn’t blocked and it wasn’t. Crap! No other choice but to pull the master cylinder again and probably just start again by putting in the new one that had arrived. So that’s what I did – I removed and swapped in the new master cylinder. Since I don’t have a bench or vice I didn’t try to bench bleed the new master but did it in the car using the plastic hose attached to the hard lines coming from the master. This seemed to work quite well and did a good job of getting the master primed. I then hooked up the hard lines and was quickly getting fluid at the rear brakes again. I bleed all wheels and tried to get pressure on the pedal but that seemed to come and go. As I said somewhat deja vue. Figuring that I must be doing something wrong on the bleeding I just went ahead and fully bolted up the pedal box and the master cylinder and will resume as soon as I can perhaps enlist some more onsite help.
Summary of Previous Journal Entries
Showing previous 10 journal entries:
| Title | Date | #Pic | #Cmt | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rebuilding The Brake Master | 2007-01-22 | Well it was the Monday night group therapy session tonight and I took along the removed brake master cylinder. Encourage to pull it apart, that's exactly what we did and quite an ... | ||
| Showing The 77 Some Love - Defroster | 2007-01-21 | Well it snowed overnight and this year's Triumph Club Polar Bear run is coming up shortly. Last year I fixed the car to have heat but the defroster switch would only turn to the In... | ||
| Brake Bleeding …… Bloody Cold ………. Bleeding Brakes! | 2007-01-20 | 1 | Well last weekend I didn’t write it up but I tried again to bleed the brakes. I tried to bleed the master by itself using plastic hoses on the ends of the hard lines that go into... | |
| Brake Bleeding ...... Bleeding Brakes! | 2007-01-07 | 1 | Finally I have started doing some work again and started to look at the brakes and addressing new flexible hoses. I had never done this before so I did some reading first and learn... | |
| Horn, Side Markers & Console Work Plus Fixing Puking Carbs | 2006-11-27 | Despite some incredibly warm weather this Thanksgiving weekend some work and even progress was made. This after the other week I spent the afternoon extracting the remains of my c... | ||
| First Drive (After Seat Install & Other Bits) | 2006-11-19 | 1 | Well today has been a VERY good day! I started off with something simple given I haven’t been having much luck with the driver’s seat. I did have another go a w... | |
| Fixing The Recline On The Drivers Seat | 2006-11-11 | Well I’m back from UK and starting to tackle a few things again. In the pre-vacation attempt to put the seats in I discovered that the recline mechanism on the drivers seat was ... | ||
| Seat Install - Attempted | 2006-10-14 | 1 | So not the most productive day I've ever had with the 72 :-( I did, however, figure out the seat bolts by trying a course thread bolt and that seems to work. Of cou... | |
| Seat Belts Installed | 2006-10-13 | 1 | Tonight I worked on the seat belts rather than the seats. It seems I need some nuts for the screw bolts that attach the sliders to the seat itself and I don’t have those. Also ... | |
| Putting The Cockpit Rail Back (Mostly) | 2006-10-10 | 1 | Just went ahead and got the cockpit rail put back, mostly tonight. It looks as though the gluing activity went fine and although there are a few little wrinkles on the curves I th... |
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