Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 16:57:05 GMT From: "Dexter J" <lamealameadingdongnospamlamelame.org> Subject: Re: 9-3 brake rotor
Salutations: On 24 Mar 2005 16:31:58 GMT, Dave Hinz <DaveHinznospamcop.net> wrote: > On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 16:23:53 GMT, Dexter J > <lamealameadingdongnospamlamelame.org> wrote: >> >> On 24 Mar 2005 15:10:50 GMT, Dave Hinz <DaveHinznospamcop.net> wrote: >> >>> Nope. Do it the way you said. > >> Hey brother Dave - I'm not of one position or the other on this one - >> but >> I can see how it might go a some way to keeping any sludge out of the >> calliper circuits if you did bleed while you compressed. > > What sludge? > >> I think the ABS >> issue is irrelevant though. > > Yes. If your brake fluid is crudded up, then fix that, but it's not > relevant to doing pads. Flush brake fluid first maybe, but these > days it's not like we're driving around with DOT-3 brake fluid. > >> You would want to be careful so that you didn't let the piston slip back >> and introduce a bubble or go in too fast/far and purge the bore. > > Speed won't enter into it - bubbles aren't in there, pressing > fluid back up won't create them. > >> But - I >> can't see how it would hurt to carefully pressure bleed the calliper >> instead of reverse pressurizing the system. > > It's not necessary, is what I'm saying. Sure, you can bleed your brakes > whenever you want, but by their nature, brakes work by fluid going > up and down the brake lines in some volume, so by definition they have > to allow that to happen. > >> You would probably want to top up the system after doing each shoe - but >> that wouldn't be too hard if you have a pal at hand to pump the peddle. > >> What am I missing? > Sounds like a lot of screwing around for a non-issue, to me. > > Dave I can see that - thanks brother Dave. -- Radio Free Dexterdyne Top Tune o'be-do-da-day Rocky Horror Picture Show - Over at the Frankenstein Place http://www.dexterdyne.org/888/110.RAM all tunes - no cookies no subscription no weather no ads no news no phone in no sign up required - all the Time
