

| Subject: | THANKS - Report (brakes) |
| From: | neil |
| Date: | Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:19:55 -0700 |
Hi all. First off thanks for help on brakes (bleeding) FWIW, I used the gravity method to bleed brakes. (no time to get parts together to build power bleeder) Did one wheel at a time. Went around twice. First time some bubbles came out the fronts, second time nothing but fluid. A few tiny bubbles came out drain bleeder on Pside. Regardless, getting them out really helped things. Much improved though pedal will still bottom out to metal if pressed hard. I hammered on the brakes (it's raining, so better for testing me thinks) and Dside ass end came around. Not totally, but enough to make me think rears are out of adj. Fronts have even wear and pads/rotors hardly worn at all. I'm taking it in to have a power bleed done and rear shoe adj. done as well. Anyways... Things are on track and if this work at "Beetle Spa" doesn't help, then I dunno what I'll do. Maybe a caliper/rotor upgrade?? ;^) Thanks! -- Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia. http://web.mac.com/tubaneil
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