No more confusion to me. The T seems to be not original. The bleeder is actually below this T piece - a screw in the round plate on the pucks. However. I am having the feeling that a new elbow (not t-piece) might solve the leaking problem. If that does not work, I feel a new brake line will be the right solution. The brake lines are just aluminum tubes that are flared. They might develop cracks and if that is the case, no tightening will help and any sealing compound on the threads does nothing. The tube itself needs to seal. Again that is when the tube is flared onto a seat in this case your T-piece. A picture would help indeed.
Hartmut From: mokied Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 6:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ercoupe-tech] Re: brake leak more info I won't he able to get a pic until later this week. The valve is located directly on top of the caliper. The caliper (correct part name?) being the device that has the pucks in it to work against the disc. It's a T shaped valve with the left part of the T going to the brake line, the right part of the T being a bleed valve, and the bottom part of the T threads into the caliper. The T valve looks to me like something you might see on a 60's model vehicle. It reminds me of a proportioning valve that I have on an old 67 mustang. The brakes on this coupe are the Goodyear brakes. I am probably just confusing everybody more!
