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Well, back around Christmas, someone posted here that the aluminum racing jacks were on sale at Harbor Freight for a good deal. I went over to their website and ordered one for $89 and got free shipping too. I finally got it. It's nice. I can get it under my lowered 88 900T without any problems. I can also pick it up and carry it without worrying about my back. I can also roll it around on my garage floor without little pieces of driveway grit stopping it from rolling. It's light and it's nice.
Some time ago, I also ordered a brake bleeder from Eeuroparts.com for $44 or so. It's like the DIY system people have described here with the plastic chemical sprayer. This has a pressure gauge on it, and a handpump and a hose hooked up to a resovior cap. I think I will add a manual pressure relief to it sometime. It's good too.
Weather was warm today (50f) so I decided to try out these two new tools and bleed my brakes, check the pads and rotors, etc...
I put the brake bleeder tank onto the resovior and pumped it up. Then I jacked the front of the car up and went to work on a front caliper. It was a little tight so I soaked it for a while in liquid wrench. I broke the nipple off. It broke off real easy.
Next wheel. I actually got this one's bleeder nipple to work. Some nasty stuff came out. I bled about a cup of brake fluid and it looked like a nasty mix of oversteeped green and black teas mixed together with a little bit of coffee grounds too from stuff stuck in the nipple.
Tried a rear wheel. I tried the same 9mm wrench I used up front. After some effort I got it on over the nipple, there was lots of crud built up around it. But either the wrench was too big or the nipple was too corroded and it wouldn't budge and it rounded the nipple some. I took the wheel off for better access. I spilled brake fluid on my shirt. Changed shirt and made sure my skin was clean. I tried smaller metric and non-metric wrenches. My adjustable wouldn't go tight enough on it and it just tended to round the soft metal more.
I gave up. One wheel skipped. One wheel now has a caliper with no nipple. One wheel is nicely bled, and the other wheel has a stuck nipple that no wrench of mine will fit!
Then of course, I didn't have a funnel to get the unused brake fluid out of the bleeder and back into the bottle neatly.
I think I will have speed bleeders installed next time I hire someone else to straigten out what I've messed up.
posted by 69.39.1...
, Sun, 28 Mar 2004 09:32:32
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