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Subject:Re: No Brakes!
From:David Beierl
Date:Thu, 12 Apr 2001 22:11:16 -0400
At 10:06 PM 4/12/2001, Rod Smith wrote:
>Same deal, press brake pedal, open bleeder, nothing!
>Now I have no brakes at all (except hand brake)
>So, What am I doing wrong? or did I perhaps screw up the master cylinder
>somehow when I compressed the pistons?

It has been suggested that the long stroke from bleeding can run the seals
over rough spots in the unused part of the master cylinder which wrecks them...

david

David Beierl - Providence, RI
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