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Subject:Re: Brake bleeding problems
From:Rob
Date:Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:57:13 -0700

At  3/26/2012 01:05 PM, Bryan Feddish wrote:
>OK. I did 2 rounds of the "yell at your wife" method of brake bleeding,  Got
>allot of air out.  The brakes feel like they do whenever I have gotten the
>van back from any of my mechanics in the past. That meaning the pedal goes
>down as far as it always has and a little pumping the brakes firms them up a
>bit.

I've often thought that that ONE extra pump to 'firm them up' was
caused by having rear slave cylinders with out the springs in them.
I've been planning on getting new cyl for the rear to see if those
change things.

Rob
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