Bleeding Brakes
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From: Canadian living in southern France
Bleeding Brakes
Hi, I just joined today.
I have just imported a '76 coupe, and live in a little village in south-eastern France. (I'm Canadian). Corvettes are as rare a hens teeth around here, I've seen two in the last eight years.
Anyway, I'm getting mine ready for a government safety inspection to transfer the ownership into my name, and it has too much brake pedal travel, so I decided to try the most basic thing first, and started to bleed the brakes. When I got to the inside half of the right rear calliper, I got plenty of air bubbles and thought that would solve the problem. But, the bubbles kept coming and coming for about twenty pedal strokes. All the other callipers had almost no air in them. I think I have the last of the air out, there seems to be a few tiny bubbles, but that's it. Has anybody else ever had to bleed a calliper this long to get out all the air?
I have just imported a '76 coupe, and live in a little village in south-eastern France. (I'm Canadian). Corvettes are as rare a hens teeth around here, I've seen two in the last eight years.
Anyway, I'm getting mine ready for a government safety inspection to transfer the ownership into my name, and it has too much brake pedal travel, so I decided to try the most basic thing first, and started to bleed the brakes. When I got to the inside half of the right rear calliper, I got plenty of air bubbles and thought that would solve the problem. But, the bubbles kept coming and coming for about twenty pedal strokes. All the other callipers had almost no air in them. I think I have the last of the air out, there seems to be a few tiny bubbles, but that's it. Has anybody else ever had to bleed a calliper this long to get out all the air?
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Hi, I just joined today.
I have just imported a '76 coupe, and live in a little village in south-eastern France. (I'm Canadian). Corvettes are as rare a hens teeth around here, I've seen two in the last eight years.
Anyway, I'm getting mine ready for a government safety inspection to transfer the ownership into my name, and it has too much brake pedal travel, so I decided to try the most basic thing first, and started to bleed the brakes. When I got to the inside half of the right rear calliper, I got plenty of air bubbles and thought that would solve the problem. But, the bubbles kept coming and coming for about twenty pedal strokes. All the other callipers had almost no air in them. I think I have the last of the air out, there seems to be a few tiny bubbles, but that's it. Has anybody else ever had to bleed a calliper this long to get out all the air?
I have just imported a '76 coupe, and live in a little village in south-eastern France. (I'm Canadian). Corvettes are as rare a hens teeth around here, I've seen two in the last eight years.
Anyway, I'm getting mine ready for a government safety inspection to transfer the ownership into my name, and it has too much brake pedal travel, so I decided to try the most basic thing first, and started to bleed the brakes. When I got to the inside half of the right rear calliper, I got plenty of air bubbles and thought that would solve the problem. But, the bubbles kept coming and coming for about twenty pedal strokes. All the other callipers had almost no air in them. I think I have the last of the air out, there seems to be a few tiny bubbles, but that's it. Has anybody else ever had to bleed a calliper this long to get out all the air?
