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Old Mar 11, 2009 | 09:33 AM
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Hey, any tuning experts around the Jackson, MS area make house calls? I will pay.......I just can't seem to get my '81 running right and need some help. Carb tuning, brake bleeding, and a few other things on my list. I will be a tool boy for ya, and pay! Vette is running.

(Did I forget to mention the ice chest full of cold adult beverages of your choice?)
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Old Mar 11, 2009 | 04:44 PM
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Wish I could help you...but lets be real here, all I'd really be of help to you is bleeding the breaks.




Which is to say, you can do that one yourself. Get her lifted up, and start from the farthest from the MC, so, rear passenger. Just open up the bleeders, pop open a cold one, and wait until it is a steady stream of fluid leaking out. The on to the other rear, then on to front passenger, then finally the other front. Once this is done, close em all up, and get the wife/girlfriend/neighbor/drinking buddy/dude from work to swing by and hit the break pedal for you, while you bleed each one with some preasure added.
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Old Mar 11, 2009 | 08:57 PM
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Originally Posted by KevinK
Wish I could help you...but lets be real here, all I'd really be of help to you is bleeding the breaks.




Which is to say, you can do that one yourself. Get her lifted up, and start from the farthest from the MC, so, rear passenger. Just open up the bleeders, pop open a cold one, and wait until it is a steady stream of fluid leaking out. The on to the other rear, then on to front passenger, then finally the other front. Once this is done, close em all up, and get the wife/girlfriend/neighbor/drinking buddy/dude from work to swing by and hit the break pedal for you, while you bleed each one with some preasure added.
Thanks, I can get some help with the bleeding.......but the tuning seems to be the problem.
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