Steve Before you start taking things apart, try shocking the master cylinder - light hammer blow will do. I have found that sometimes the piston sticks at the far end of the travel and won't return. No amount of pumping will help. Free it up and it should be ok after you work it a bit if this is the problem.
Ciao Les Wet and freezing in Wellington with shortest days looming :-( Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:56:16 -0400 From: Steve Hood <[email protected]> Subject: [alfa] Bleeding Duetto brakes Hey Folks- Hoping to be able to DRIVE my '67 Duetto to the convention and thought I should bleed the brakes. It's an ATE system with no booster. I was getting binding in the drivers side rear caliper and went to bleed the brakes. As soon as I released pressure with the bleed screw/hose/bottle combo, the pedal went to the floor and I can't seem to move any fluid with the pedal. You can pump all day and nothing happens. Fresh fluid in the resevoir and a helper pumping the brakes and nothing. I switched to my mitivac and I'm able to suck dribbles out, but it would take days at that rate. I'll try moving to the front to see if that helps, but I'm at a loss. Any thought? Thanks, Steve _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:W L :en-US:WM_HMP:042010_3 -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
