Bleedin’ Brakes
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My Chimaera has just had the diff rebuilt and after an eye watering bill I have decided to do some DIY maintenance.
Noticing a squishing noise coming from the brake pedal over the first couple of inches of travel with braking not up to expectations I decide to replace the fluid and bleed the brakes, thinking how hard can it be ? Many years ago I spent some time as an aircraft fitter doing brakes on light aircraft so I recon no worries.
After reading “the bible”, doing a search on PH and tooling up with one of them pressurised ezee-bleed bottles and some DOT5.1;
1. I blow fluid out of the reservoir all over the place doing a pressure test with the wrong o ring in the cap.
2. The 20psi bike tire I’m running the thing on runs out of puff after a pushing through couple of mils of fluid so I’m running round the car from nearside rear tyre to the engine bay and back to keep pumping up the bike tyre until I canna take it any more.
3. So I borrow a simple non return ezieeer-bleed tube and switch to the pumping the brake pedal method.
4. After about 4 hours or mucking around I get to the last tyre and find that I cant undo 2 of the wheel nuts and give up (Naturally, there is still a squishing noise coming from the brake pedal).
Arse !
Noticing a squishing noise coming from the brake pedal over the first couple of inches of travel with braking not up to expectations I decide to replace the fluid and bleed the brakes, thinking how hard can it be ? Many years ago I spent some time as an aircraft fitter doing brakes on light aircraft so I recon no worries.
After reading “the bible”, doing a search on PH and tooling up with one of them pressurised ezee-bleed bottles and some DOT5.1;
1. I blow fluid out of the reservoir all over the place doing a pressure test with the wrong o ring in the cap.
2. The 20psi bike tire I’m running the thing on runs out of puff after a pushing through couple of mils of fluid so I’m running round the car from nearside rear tyre to the engine bay and back to keep pumping up the bike tyre until I canna take it any more.
3. So I borrow a simple non return ezieeer-bleed tube and switch to the pumping the brake pedal method.
4. After about 4 hours or mucking around I get to the last tyre and find that I cant undo 2 of the wheel nuts and give up (Naturally, there is still a squishing noise coming from the brake pedal).
Arse !
upgrade for my tyre iron I have got the stuck wheel bolts off and will score a second trolly jack and some axle stands asap to continue my misson.Gassing Station | Chimaera | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff