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How do I go about filling an empty(?) brake system? - a question from Billy Knudson, and an answer from Dan Soiney I am getting the '58 ready to leave the soon-to-be-a-memory Magic Shoppe. I removed the locked up brake master cylinder last night, cleaned the reservoir, honed the cylinder and cleaned the plunger and interior parts. I put it back on and hooked up the lines and opened the passenger rear bleeder valve. I filled the bowl with brake fluid and pumped the pedal, but the bowl remained full. I blew through it when I had it off, and pumped some fluid through it by hand. I have replaced some of the brake lines and all of the hoses on the bus, as well as cleaned up and honed all of the wheel cylinders. I believe the brake system to be dry. How do I go about filling an empty(?) brake system? The PITA way is to get 4 bleeder bottles, and 4 hoses.
Open all bleeders, connect the hoses, and have the bottles 1/4 full of new fluid.
Place the hoses so they are immersed fully in the fluid. Now cycle the pedal
slowly up and down numerous times. This should give you a pretty good pedal.
If you need to fine tune, you can do wheels individually later. |
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