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03-01-2014, 10:58 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: fenton,
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Cobra Make, Engine: B&B 351C
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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!  After a couple more hours i finally got everything right. Man i love building cars!  |
03-01-2014, 12:06 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Cape Coral,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Superformance # 1774 / 392 Stroked Windsor
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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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03-01-2014, 12:28 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Mesa,
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA #2119 289FIA
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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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"In the Land of the Pigs, The Butcher is King"
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03-01-2014, 12:29 PM
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Join Date: Jan 1999
Location: Duvall,
Wa
Cobra Make, Engine: KMP286, Shelby 482, Webers, 593HP
Posts: 4,162
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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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03-01-2014, 01:06 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: fenton,
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Cobra Make, Engine: B&B 351C
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I am sure at some other point in the build i will earn it back!
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03-01-2014, 01:30 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Bay Area (Peninsula),
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA 427, 427/487 side-oiler
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If that's your largest mistake, you're much better than most of us.
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03-01-2014, 02:22 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Little Rock area,
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA Street Roadster #782 with 459 cu in FE KC engine, toploader, 3.31
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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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03-01-2014, 03:32 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Loudon,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Superformance#2352/Aluminum SO/490 c.i. 650 h.p. 605 tq.
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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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I keep getting the "Village Idiot" award, you want to swap???? |
03-01-2014, 04:13 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: West Chester,
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA #795 427 S/C completed Jan. '14 - '68 FE 427 side oiler
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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...
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03-01-2014, 05:12 PM
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sounds like i am in good company with a bunch of good people!
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03-02-2014, 03:22 AM
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Location: Naracoorte,
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Cobra Make, Engine: CR Cobra 3169
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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. 
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03-02-2014, 06:35 AM
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Location: Lake Havasu City, AZ,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Arps/Burroughs/Hurricane/428FE
Posts: 1,346
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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.
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03-02-2014, 07:01 AM
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Location: endicott,
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Cobra Make, Engine: SPF
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My Dad is from Fenton..........
It could be the water.
(just kidding... but I do see my Dad do some .. funny stuff!)
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03-02-2014, 09:46 AM
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"dumbass of the year" Far from it, I know many who would have left it upside down!!!!!!!!
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03-02-2014, 10:07 AM
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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
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