Date:         Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:31:50 -0800
Reply-To:     Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Bad juju?
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Geza.

This is one reason I love GMail; my very own instantly searchable archives.

Here's Tabe Johson's Power Bleeder.

It is easy to make a homemade power bleeder.  Get a
truck valve stem from a tire place.  They are metal
and threaded all the way, with a nut and some
rubber washers to keep the air in.  Get a spare
brake fluid reservoir cap from a junkyard or the
dealer if you're desparate.  Drill a hole the
right size in the cap for the valve stem and put
the valve stem on. Put the cap on the reservoir
and pressurize a pump or two.  Go bleed.  Get
out and pump the pump a couple of pushes.  Watch
for the fluid reservoir to  flex.  When it starts to,
don't pump any more!  Use your judgement.

The store-bought reservoirs with the huge reservoirs
are a waste of time because you have to refill the
brake fluid all the time anyway.

I may have written about this at some point -- I
should do a more detailed writeup, if I haven't.
You could search the archives  :)  It would have
been in 2004 or 2005, if I did.

You can also build a version with a pressure reservoir
without too much more work.  As always, it depends if
you have lots of time or lots of money.

tabe johnson/87 westy

On 2/13/07, Jim Morgan <JM060356@aol.com> wrote:
>
> Go to a junk yard and get a cap that fits and put a fitting on . There are
> instructions in the archive (i remember thinking that this was great and
> made
> one)
>
> Jim Morgan 86Gl "bread box"
> newly aquired  80 "stink bomb"
> mice were recently evicted from the 80
>



--
Jake
1984 Vanagon GL
1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
www.crescentbeachguitar.com