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• Re: Archive searches
  Historical mailing list - Pollard, Matthew
  Thu, 29 Apr 1999 10:59:57 -0700
  ...Any suggestions as to the bleeding procedure other than to jack the front end up? Do I just open the bleeder valve in front...
• Re: Clutch Bleeding
  Historical mailing list - Craig Cowan
  Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:22:41 -0400
  If you replaced the master start by bleeding it at the hose. Pump the clutch and while holding it down crack the line going...
• New way to bleed wasserboxer?
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 13 Apr 1997 05:54:44 -0400 (EDT)
  ...I have not enjoyed following the bleeding procedure in Bentley, kind of like doing taxes. Since I was by myself, I tried a different...
• Re: Questions about brake bleeding
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Tue, 5 May 2020 09:48:32 -0700
  ...I'm not familiar with the Motive pressure bleeder. re: "add more". Are you referring to refilling the Motive tool and not in regards...
• Re: Oil Cooler and Bleeding
  Historical mailing list - Mike
  Tue, 8 Jan 2008 18:17:00 -0500
  ...Oil Cooler and Bleeding > Just got my hoses from http://www.bus-boys.com/index.htm and gonna put > them in. Pretty easy job...
• Re: flashing LED
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:08:42 EDT
  ...I bleed these waterboxer systems here on a daily basis and no jacking or incline is necessary. USE the force of the waterpump ! It...
• Re: 85GL won't start pt.II need help bleeding fuel system...
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sat, 1 Mar 2003 00:29:54 -0500
  ...Got a suggestion to >bleed my fuel system, but I do not have the bently manual. Could anyone >email me on this procedure? Nothing...
• Re: Air in the system
  Historical mailing list - gary hradek
  Thu, 10 Oct 2002 07:54:26 -0700
  Ed, I like the idea of doing the bleed with the engine cold but not sure if it will work in all conditions. How...
• Re: Air in the system
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Thu, 10 Oct 2002 12:13:37 -0400
  He's filling through the top of the radiator bleed hole. I've done it as a top-off check. I used a squeeze...
• Re: No Clutch....
  Historical mailing list - Gregory Smith
  Tue, 2 Feb 2010 18:24:24 -0700
  ...Best to put a small clear hose on the clutch slave bleeder screw and bleed it into a glass jar. This helps you see...
• Air in Cooling System/ 89Westy
  Historical mailing list - MICHAEL POPE
  Sun, 28 Mar 2004 17:01:43 -0500
  ...I am leaving overflow between min and max lines when I bleed/ have read the Bentley on how to bleed, and it does the...
• Re: Questions about brake bleeding
  Historical mailing list - Thomas Casal
  Tue, 5 May 2020 13:52:59 -0400
  ...Bleeding was going great (left the screen in)till I got to the left caliper and the kid that installed the bleeder screw tightened...
• Re: Rear brakes frustration
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:04:25 -0800
  ...The pressure bleeders aren't hard to build. There's info on this in the archives. Though not the same as the Motive, the...
• Re: bleeding the brake and clutch fluid
  Historical mailing list - Timothy J. Hannink
  Thu, 15 Mar 2001 12:34:04 -0500
  One if the best ways to bleed the brake and clutch hydraulic system is with a pressure bleeder. Adirondack Auto Brokers, www.germanautoparts.com...
• Re: Vac/pressure bleeder recommendations
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:45:30 -0500
  ...Mike ROBERT O UELTZEN wrote: > Gee Mike - > I just made one of those brake bleeders using the GM cap as described in the site...
• location of bleeder valve
  Historical mailing list - Jeff and Deb
  Wed, 25 Aug 1999 20:59:27 -0700
  My 85 Bentley manual shows a picture of a coolant bleeder valve in the engine compartment. The problem is that I have an 86...
• Re: Last call for overheating help
  Historical mailing list - Javier Zavala
  Thu, 14 Jun 2001 00:03:04 -0500
  ...Try to parke the van with the rear higher than front and then revving up while you bleed. It worked for me. Javier Zavala
• Re: Pressure bleeding brakes?
  Historical mailing list - Chuck Mathis
  Sat, 10 Aug 2002 19:10:48 EDT
  I went the high budget route and bought a pressure bleeder from Rocky Mountain Motorworks. What you get is essentially a short garden sprayer...
• Re: Home Made Brake Pressure Bleeder: *might* add moisture to brake fluid?
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Sat, 14 May 2016 10:59:19 -0700
  ...I'm googling this, but is the 1016 bleeder tool Bentley manual shows a fluid type pressure bleeder? i.e. does it draw new...
• Re: Bleeding the front radiator
  Historical mailing list - Ben McCafferty
  Sun, 10 Mar 2002 10:18:30 -0800
  ...Bleeding the front radiator >> >> What is the best way to bleed the front radiator? >> >
• Re: bleeding advice
  Historical mailing list - Mark Dorm
  Wed, 16 Jul 2003 19:20:35 -0700
  ...Dave Vieira <dave172c@YAHOO.COM> > >Hello > >Has anyone read this Westfalia maintenace by Ben > >http://www3.sympatico.ca/huotx/bleeding.htm > >for bleeding the...
• Re: Vanagon Front Brakes
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:00:34 -0700
  But to be clear, at least to me, for the older style caliper, one bleeds only the uppers if, say, installing a new master...
• Re: fwis, this is how I bleed the radiator
  Historical mailing list - George Wietor
  Sun, 21 Oct 2001 17:03:10 -0700
  ...Bleeding coolan- Where do you apply the suction? TIA< George --- Robert Zezoff <shilohz@JPS.NET> wrote: > I have an 82 diesel to 92 digifant...
• Re: bleeding questions
  Historical mailing list - Scott Wilson
  Sun, 2 Feb 2003 16:27:05 -0800
  ...i spent about an hour this afternoon bleeding it again. first parked it facing downhill with the bleeder screw in but loose, and i...
• Ever fill coolant through BUS DEPOT radiator bleeder hole?
  Historical mailing list - gary hradek
  Fri, 10 May 2002 08:43:50 -0700
  ...I would resist the temptaion to pour coolant into this hole after all why do they call it a bleeder hole. Perhaps replacing the...
• Re: Coolant installation and bleeding idea
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Wed, 5 Oct 2005 13:09:31 -0700
  ...I have found that the air bleeds easily out of the rad. Sometimes there is a small amount of residual air that will migrate...
• Speakin' of brakes
  Historical mailing list - Steve Johnson
  Thu, 19 Jan 1995 08:48:58 -0800 (PST)
  ...Well, I had Linda help by doing the press the brake peddle 50 times then bleed, 30 times then bleed, 10 times then bleed...
• Re: Bleeding the Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - kenneth d lewis
  Thu, 8 Jun 2000 18:41:01 EDT
  ...Hmmmm, will your automatic bleeder interfere with the automatic purging and refilling of the system? I wonder. Please keep me posted. Does anyone know...
• Re: Bleeding clutch system--what gives?
  Historical mailing list - Puzerewski
  Sat, 17 Jun 2000 19:33:14 -0400
  ...This being the case, bleed both systems. I am not sure about the bleeding at the clutch master, for that is not possible on...
• Re: Speedbleeders Sizes for 84 Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Austin
  Tue, 24 Nov 1998 20:07:37 -0800
  ...Speedbleeder *does* list different ones, maybe for other Vanagons (?), but an initial glance showed that the rear drums bleeders were noticeably smaller than those...
• Re: air in the brakes?
  Historical mailing list - Jeff & Jean-Marie Diebolt
  Mon, 14 Oct 1996 22:37:49 -0400
  ...The bleeder is always at the top. If there was a good bleed when they were installed on the bottom you eliminated that when...
• Re: bleeding coolant/archives
  Historical mailing list - David Bogle / Architecture
  Tue, 25 Aug 1998 14:41:22 -0400
  FoxhntrPat@AOL.COM wrote: > Volks- I've searched gerry for "coolant bleeding." etc. but can't find Dennis > Haynes(?) or others' EASY-to-do...
• Re: Clutch not working.
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright
  Sun, 11 Apr 2010 10:50:18 -0700
  This is good advice - I had this same issue on my '82, when I allowed the level to drop too low while bleeding the...
• home made pressure bleeder
  Historical mailing list - Bob Mac
  Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:17:09 -0400
  Has anybody tried the vacuum bleeder sold by harbor freight. It's only $19.95 and seems like a simple operation. No worry about...
• Re: Air in the system
  Historical mailing list - Ed Sato
  Wed, 9 Oct 2002 21:35:28 -1000
  I don't know if anyone remembers this but awhile back I posted a solution to filling the radiator from the bleeder hole with...
• Re: Bleeding cooling system
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Sun, 15 Jan 1995 12:02:21 -0800 (PST)
  ...The one with the bleed hose that > leads back to the overflow tank. I'd assume it overflowed only over a > certain pressure. Now...
• Re: Air in the system
  Historical mailing list - Ed Sato
  Thu, 10 Oct 2002 17:33:50 -1000
  ...Put the other end in the radiator bleed > > hole. Fill the jug with > > > premix fluid and fill till fluid comes out the > > bleed hole...
• Re: Propane Leak
  Historical mailing list - Jay Roth
  Thu, 2 Jun 2005 22:52:39 -0500
  Finn Runyon wrote: >The bleeder valve on my 87 Westy is leaking. The Autostop valve on the 87 is generally opened for filling the...
• Re: 1983 Westy Propane Tank Question
  Historical mailing list - Richard A Jones
  Sun, 20 Mar 2011 09:00:55 -0600
  > But if they don't open the bleed screw ALL THE WAY = > before they try to fill, it can pressure lock and then you...
• Re: installing new clutch slave cylinder
  Historical mailing list - Tom Young
  Wed, 28 Oct 1998 17:10:00 -0800
  ...Seems the use of the pressure bleeder is necessary, else bad > things happen in the nether parts of the system. He pressure-bled the...
• Re: Brakes- the saga continues
  Historical mailing list - Gnarlodious
  Thu, 1 May 2014 08:23:54 -0600
  ...Bleeding the system carefully should stop that. >> "Carefully" being the operative word...Brake bleeding is intolerant of >> sloppy or slipshod work....any lapse at...
• help needed quick! Bleeding Clutch...
  Historical mailing list - Wesley Alden Pegden
  Thu, 27 Nov 2003 16:05:05 -0600
  Guys, I just replaced my clutch master cylinder---but when I went to bleed the system, I found that the valve on the slave...
• Re: Questions about brake bleeding
  Historical mailing list - Thomas Casal
  Sat, 9 May 2020 16:32:17 -0400
  I’m pretty sure the clutch doesn’t affect the bleed sequence from what I’ve read on the samba and here. You may...
• Re: How to - or not - bleed the cooling system
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Fri, 10 Feb 2006 11:31:59 -0800
  All grumpiness aside (ahem), I'm guessing that the reason they want you to bleed the system in the specified way, and that the...
• Re: Pressure bleeding brakes questions
  Historical mailing list - Roy Nicholl
  Sun, 1 Sep 2019 14:19:17 -0300
  ...It’s just and adjustable bar and it seems the brake pedal is pushed , not full way down, during pressure bleeding. > > I kinda thought...
• Re: Bleeding Coolant on a 2.1L syncro
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Sat, 17 Dec 2005 06:35:21 EST
  ...I'd like to bleed the coolant can anyone point me to a good description of how to? Chris, first off, I don't...
• Re: Replacing Master Brake Cylinder, How Much Fluid to Buy?
  Historical mailing list - Paul Rogers
  Sat, 5 May 2012 07:00:20 -0700
  ...I bleed the system manually with the aid of a friend per the write up on BTDT. No pumping prior to opening the bleeders...
• Brake Pressure Bleeder/Coolant Pressure Testor
  Historical mailing list - Cory Zumbrennen
  Sun, 4 Feb 2001 21:50:36 -0700
  Hi All, Has anyone used a pressurized brake bleeder either that you attach to a air compressor or like the following? http://www.motiveproducts...
• Brakes, still soft after bleeding - Help!
  Historical mailing list - Miguel Calvin
  Tue, 5 Jun 2001 22:14:47 -0400
  My brakes have been a bit soft for a while, (one pump of the pedal would firrm them up), so I tried bleeding them...
• Re: Bleeding Coolant on a 2.1L syncro
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Fri, 16 Dec 2005 18:03:11 -0600
  ...Hope nobody is reading this stuff in real time trying to bleed a vanagon. Jim On Dec 16, 2005, at 5:07 PM, Old...
• Re: Bleeding the cooling system
  Historical mailing list - George Hahn
  Fri, 15 Jan 1999 19:27:19 -0700
  John Rodgers wrote: > Anyone ever try parking on a really steep downhill grade to bleed the system It does, had a driveway in California...
• Re: Formerly Rich Running 1.9l WBX Now Running Hot
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sun, 30 May 2010 16:18:48 -0700
  re Can I get some of the air out via the valve on the h-pipe, before jacking her up and bleeding from the...
• Re: Audi help need in Robbinsville, NC
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Fri, 18 May 2012 23:02:54 -0400
  ...A local garage installed them and managed to screw up bleeding the system. They do not have a pressure bleeder, and I suspect there...
• Re: You know how just when you think you're wrapping up, the radiator bleeder screw head shears off?
  Historical mailing list - Rob
  Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:42:15 -0800
  At 12/11/2012 02:27 AM, Mike South wrote: >As the subject says, I was closing the bleeder screw and the head sheared...
• Re: '85 Vanagon Sunroofy 1.9L - Coolant BLeeding/Thermostat/FanSwitch
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Wed, 21 Aug 2002 13:16:13 -0700
  ...They mount differently, use different fan temp switches (2 separate ones, mounted high sadly), have a brake style bleeder valve, use a different fan...
• Coolant leak questions
  Historical mailing list - David Maurio
  Sun, 7 Sep 2003 18:00:43 -0400
  ...Opened the front bleeder valve and the rear bleeder valve, ran the van at 2000 rpm until coolant started flowing freely from front. Closed...
• Re: Bleeding brakes. Motive, si!
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Lincoln
  Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:11:09 -0500
  ...Motive, si! > > > I have one of the Motive power bleeders and I use it regularly. They are >> the tool of choice for those who...
• Re: Review on DIY $20 Pressure Bleeder
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:24:47 -0500
  ...http://www.bmw-m.net/TechProc/bleeder.htm A thought: rather than fill the reservoir (on the car) with brake fluid and then bleed...
• Re: bleeding bloody brakes
  Historical mailing list - Matthias Kuster
  Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:19:01 -0800
  ...bleeding bloody brakes >> >> On 1/11/07, Matthias Kuster <matthiaskuster@verizon.net> wrote: >>> Hi list, >>> >>> I am looking to get some input on my...
• Re: a quick question about bleeding brakes
  Historical mailing list - Mike
  Fri, 22 May 2009 19:24:47 -0400
  ...This would then necessitate bleeding the fronts, too. If it were me, I'd use this occasion to flush out all the old fluid...