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Re: No clutch back pressure
Posted by Charles Christacopoulos (more from Charles Christacopoulos) on Tue, 14 Dec 1999 09:52:00
In Reply to: No clutch back pressure, James Montreuil (E-mail), Mon, 13 Dec 1999 09:09:12
If you use the pressure method (about the best way for bleeding a clutch)
watch out for spills of fluid. They make an excellent paint stripper :-))
The other thing that is worth doing is to bleed all your brakes once you
have gone in the effort of connecting up the kit. Whilst you got the
pressure on is quite easy to bleed all the brakes until clean fluid comes
out.
Brake fluid is hydroscopic (my big word of the week). It means it collects
humidity etc and all is well until either
(a) things corrode from the inside, eg. brake pistons;
or (b) when something gets hot (eg. brake) the water inside the brake fluid
becomes mist, and mist equals air, and your brakes don't work.
Been there, seen it done, and eventually cracked it.
Charles
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Posts in this Thread:
- No clutch back pressure, James Montreuil (E-mail), Mon, 13 Dec 1999 09:09:12
- Re: No clutch back pressure, Charles Christacopoulos, Thu, 16 Dec 1999 10:38:00
- Re: No clutch back pressure, Spencer Cleary, Wed, 15 Dec 1999 09:29:59
- Re: No clutch back pressure, Charles Christacopoulos, Tue, 14 Dec 1999 09:52:00
- Re: No clutch back pressure, David Prantl, Tue, 14 Dec 1999 09:21:59
- Re: No clutch back pressure, Philip Hult, Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:50:59
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