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dumbass of the year goes to me
Hi, Dan here, probably should not post this but what the hell, trying to bleed the brake system now that i have brake system complete and can't get the rear brakes to bleed, after hours of trying and no progress it's time to get drunk and ponder the situation, at first i thought it was the synthetic fluid, i had troubles with that fluid on the race car before, but that was not it, decide to go to bed. Wake up in the middle of the night and asked myself why the f*** is the bleed screw below the brake line? I put the calipers on backwards! Thought that would be a easy fix but i had already hooked up emergency brake cables, well with the calipers on correctly now the cable lenghts are a little different!:CRY: After a couple more hours i finally got everything right. Man i love building cars!:LOL:
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You are not the only one that has got that award!!! Sometimes these cars are a real pain!!! LOL! Mark
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Stanger, do you calipers have one or two bleed screws? We worked and worked on my buddy's car, with Wilwoods, and finally someone told us it had two bleeders per caliper. duh! Worked out much better. We hadn't taken the wheels off so we couldn't look down from above to see the other screw. felt prudy stoopid!
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Why is it that in the middle of the night we wake up with solutions? I constantly think about work in the middle of the night and solve all sorts of problems that didn't click in the day. Glad you got it all straightened out...and believe me, we've all won that award at some point.
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I am sure at some other point in the build i will earn it back!
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If that's your largest mistake, you're much better than most of us.
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Brake bleeding in general, is just a real frustrating chore to me. It almost never goes right the first time - sometimes for fairly obvious reasons and sometimes for reasons that don't become apparent until later. I think other than trouble shooting an electrical malfunction, brake bleeding is my least favorite chore. Congratualtions on perservering and working it out.
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Dan,
If we all confessed to the mistakes we've made I think you'd have to try considerably harder than that to get that award... |
sounds like i am in good company with a bunch of good people!
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A expert is someone who has stuffed up many times, to finally get it right.
Also a ex, is a has been, and a spert is a drip under pressure.:cool: JD |
Hey I did the same thing with the calipers but caught it sooner.
One day when I was just leaving home in the cobra, I looked at the oil gauge and saw "no pressure", slammed on the brakes and shut off the motor. I sat there a moment and pondered what is wrong here. Nothing wrong... I was looking at the oil temp. gauge, not the oil pressure . I felt like an old absent minded fool for a moment. Started the engine.. everything was fine. DumbArse. |
My Dad is from Fenton..........
It could be the water. (just kidding... but I do see my Dad do some .. funny stuff!) |
"dumbass of the year" Far from it, I know many who would have left it upside down!!!!!!!!
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a few years ago, a guy at work struggled with the same problem when he removed calipers, went to autozone, came back and had them swapped left/right......result....bleeders on top. we figured it out what happened and just messed with him a while throwing out some of the craziest solutions you ever heard of. We found a page in the official service manual online, and ADDED a couple of NOTES!!! we printed it and gave it to him and told him here is the page in the manual that provides a solution.
NOTE: If technician is still having difficulty achieving proper brake pressure, vehicle may have to be inverted to complete this bleeding procedure. we could not keep a straight face :LOL: |
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