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Re: Guess what - Brake bleeding woes..
« on: 06 April 2013, 07:22:26 pm »
Not wishing to **** on your bonfire but those vacuum bleeders don't seem to work on series motors, at least they won't for me. I bought one a while back and had no success with it. It is sounding like your master cylinder is **** however before condemning it I'd bleed with an eezibleed. I've just changed all of the wheel cylinders and brake shoes on the ambulance...



...and had no dramas using the g-clamping method and eezibleed. The CB master cylinders are trickier than a CV but once bled work fine. The beauty of the eezibleed is it effectively bleeds the system without the master cylinder having to pump, sometimes that can encourage a stubborn one to work. Failing that, I wouldn't bin it. There are companies that will re-sleeve them for around £75 - I'm sure Kev or Parksy posted summat recently about this.
'55 107 truck cab ✪ '66 109 hardtop ✪ '66 109 LHD ex-MOD ambulance ✪ '71 109 one ton ✪ '72 88 2.5 petrol ✪ '72 2B FC Dorothy Perkins 4.236 ✪ '79 Lightweight LHD ✪ '79 109 LHD ✪ '83 109 FFR ✪'93 Dennis Rapier fire engine ✪'94 Range Rover Vogue Tdi...and an '86 SAAB 9000 turbo