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Subject:Re: Questions about brake bleeding
From:Thomas Casal
Date:Tue, 5 May 2020 13:52:59 -0400

Thanks dan. Bleeding was going great (left the screen in)till I got to the
left caliper and the kid that installed the bleeder screw tightened the
thing down an ungodly amount and of course it rounded off as I was trying
to remove it. Now I’m in a real pickle. Anyone have any advice on how to
get the darn thing out of there once rounded? I really don’t wanna source a
new part of this caliper. It’s seriously frozen theses calipers are only 6
years old Never driven in winter so I know it’s not rusted on.

On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 12:49 PM Neil N <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote:

> HI Stuart.
>
> On 4/11/17, Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > .... If you have to add more when you crack the cap you'll bubble
> > air into the fluid remaining and will need to wait several hours or toss
> it.
>
> I'm not familiar with the Motive pressure bleeder.
>
> re: "add more". Are you referring to refilling the Motive tool and not
> in regards to adding more fluid into the master cylinder reservoir?
> i.e. when cracking the cap on the Motive, air bubbles get introduced
> into brake fluid in the Motive tool?
>
> I use a home made "air" pressure bleeder. I've not noticed air bubbles
> created in the master cylinder reservoir when topping it up during the
> bleeding process.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Neil.
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Neil n
>
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>
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