Date:         Wed, 8 Jul 2009 14:31:18 -0700
Reply-To:     Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From:         Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject:      Re: here's a trick you seldom get to use ......bleeding clutch
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Comments: To: Mike <mbucchino@CHARTER.NET>
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sure, that'll work just fine.............. to use pressure from one vehicle
to another to bleed the 2nd vehicles brakes.
Didn't you ever grab vacuum off a running car to test a vacuum controlled
device of some sort, something not associated with that car  ? - same thing
roughly.
Think outside the box.
there are many variations on this theme.
But we should work on the compressed air powered car more .   The passenger
can keep restoring pressure back into the tank .......thus adding range
'while driving' by pedaling on a pump that directs pressure to the pressure
tank.  Burns calories nicely too, good exercise.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike" <mbucchino@CHARTER.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 1:48 PM
Subject: Re: here's a trick you seldom get to use ......bleeding clutch
slave


Ditto, Don and Scott!

  But, I may never get to use it;  I have both a Motive unit and and auto
transmission.

  I wonder, if you get a long enough hose, could a person bleed a different
vehicle's brake/ clutch systems (using the good vehicle's brake system for
pressure)?
  Hmmmm, we may haved stumbled onto something here. It seems to me to be a
'poor man's' version of a power-bleeder!
  I volunteer Scott to give it a try, and report back to us all.............
Mike B.
  Neat trick.

    Power bleeding with a Motive Power bleeder is the better way than a
Vacuum
  Bleeder...
    When you are alone, the pressure-style bleeding systems are pretty
  fool-proof.  I used to sometimes bleed brakes a couple of times per day in
  my racecar..So I do have some experience with that stuff.
    Don Hanson