Times when you wish you'd just taken it to the garage
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Finally finsihed replacing my brake fluid last night - what should have been a 1.5 hour job took me roughly 5 hours.
Being a good boy, I put the whole car up on axle stands and had all the wheels off, before I realised that the EZ Bleed kit I had was leaking dreadfully, so not only was the pressure pushing the fluid through at little more than a dribble, but it was also deflating a tyre per caliper, meaning that I had to keep a production line of tyres on the compressor for re-inflating (the compressor in the car is painfully slow).
A slightly dodgy thread on the fitment to the reservoir also nearly had me pour the entire contents of my £50 bottle of SRF all over the floor.
So very kind thanks to Mr. Kennedy for coming and helping me do it the good old fashioned pedal pushing way in under two hours.
Being a good boy, I put the whole car up on axle stands and had all the wheels off, before I realised that the EZ Bleed kit I had was leaking dreadfully, so not only was the pressure pushing the fluid through at little more than a dribble, but it was also deflating a tyre per caliper, meaning that I had to keep a production line of tyres on the compressor for re-inflating (the compressor in the car is painfully slow).
A slightly dodgy thread on the fitment to the reservoir also nearly had me pour the entire contents of my £50 bottle of SRF all over the floor.
So very kind thanks to Mr. Kennedy for coming and helping me do it the good old fashioned pedal pushing way in under two hours.
Nefarious said:
Finally finsihed replacing my brake fluid last night - what should have been a 1.5 hour job took me roughly 5 hours.
Being a good boy, I put the whole car up on axle stands and had all the wheels off, before I realised that the EZ Bleed kit I had was leaking dreadfully, so not only was the pressure pushing the fluid through at little more than a dribble, but it was also deflating a tyre per caliper, meaning that I had to keep a production line of tyres on the compressor for re-inflating (the compressor in the car is painfully slow).
A slightly dodgy thread on the fitment to the reservoir also nearly had me pour the entire contents of my £50 bottle of SRF all over the floor.
So very kind thanks to Mr. Kennedy for coming and helping me do it the good old fashioned pedal pushing way in under two hours.
Anytime mate.....pushing a brake pedal was about all I could manage on Sunday so glad it was nothing more technical Being a good boy, I put the whole car up on axle stands and had all the wheels off, before I realised that the EZ Bleed kit I had was leaking dreadfully, so not only was the pressure pushing the fluid through at little more than a dribble, but it was also deflating a tyre per caliper, meaning that I had to keep a production line of tyres on the compressor for re-inflating (the compressor in the car is painfully slow).
A slightly dodgy thread on the fitment to the reservoir also nearly had me pour the entire contents of my £50 bottle of SRF all over the floor.
So very kind thanks to Mr. Kennedy for coming and helping me do it the good old fashioned pedal pushing way in under two hours.
exactly why I never get the spanners out.
used to regularly drop the engine out of a beetle for fiddling and learned my lesson. Put it back once after many hours, and the whole engine vibrating and going mental. I convinced myself, I had a collapsed spark plug, or a bent driveshaft or worse- hours it took.
finally worked out I hadn't done up 2 of the 4 bolts holding the engine on. twerp.
used to regularly drop the engine out of a beetle for fiddling and learned my lesson. Put it back once after many hours, and the whole engine vibrating and going mental. I convinced myself, I had a collapsed spark plug, or a bent driveshaft or worse- hours it took.
finally worked out I hadn't done up 2 of the 4 bolts holding the engine on. twerp.
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