Thanks Craig, I just went through the same thing and ended up getting my son to pump the brake pedal. I thought that I may have had a leak where I didn't tighten down a fitting, till I was able to successfully bleed the system the old fasioned way. Had I not seen your post, I may have given up on my MityVac.
Mike Ross ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "SpitList (Spit list)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 8:50 AM Subject: bleed screws > I learned something last night! > I have a Mityvac,(great little tool), and I was helping a friend bleed some > brakes on a custom 71 C10 Chevy pickup. We bought a disk brake kit for the > rears and as I was using the vac. I was getting a lot of air through the > line at the connection point of the hose and the nipple. I thought that > maybe it was air coming through the system but I wasn't getting much fluid > with it. > I went to the web site and looked at the instruction page and Mityvac > recommends Teflon tape around the threads of the nipple. > I removed the nipples and wrapped them with the tape and man what a > difference. What was going on was air was traveling past the threads, so all > I was doing was sucking outside air and not getting a good suction on the > line. > The link is > http://www.mityvac.com/ > > > Craig Smith > Office 864/289-0933 > Fax 864/289-9645 /// [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list /// Send admin requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] /// or try http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool /// Archives at http://www.team.net/archive /// Send list postings to [EMAIL PROTECTED] /// Edit your replies! If they include this trailer, they will NOT be sent.
