

| Subject: | Re: Clutch slave cyl. replacement: What could go wrong? Well.....Friday sort of. |
| From: | Don Hanson |
| Date: | Sat, 6 Sep 2014 21:05:39 -0700 |
Yes, I learned another lesson with this episode... Lesson One is to check the hoses used in my brake bleeding equipment...it seems that brake fluid does a job on most of the tubing that comes with these 'tools' The reason I pumped that much pressure into my system is that it was losing pressure quickly... and I was working alone...so by the time I could get out of the van and crawl under to check for leakage, the pressure bottle was losing all pressure at a lower PSI....I should have found a helper to keep pumping the pressure bottle but I'm quite rural and my S.O. was not around... The Motive pressure bleeding system has a 'feed hose' inside the reservoir so that it fills the vehicle's brake reservoir through the hose to a cap that you screw on in place of the standard reservoir cap...This is to prevent running dry of fluid during the bleeding process and forcing air throughout the system...When finished with the pressure bleeding process, you must carefully unscrew the Motive cap (because the vehicle reservoir is brim-full of fluid) and use a turkey baster or some suction device to lower the level in the reservoir to the marked "Max" level... When that hose between the Motive pressure bottle and the vehicle reservoir let loose....it became, in essence, a weed-sprayer, but with brake fluid....and I had just put a large bottle of fluid into the Motive...that blew all over the inside of the van and everything in it...Not at all pretty/ On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@hotmail.com> wrote: You pumped a brake pressure bleeder up to 20 psi? So what part of the reservoir and connecting system was designed for pressure? Watching the reservoir tank swell at 2 or 3 psi tells me to stop. This should not be necessary to do the job. Things on the pressure side operate at much higher pressures so this is not even a good method for lea testing. Dennis
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