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On 26 Jul 2005 at 22:09, type3weezer@comcast.net wrote: > I have a 65 square, (pre disc brakes) drums all around. When bleeding > the cylinders, do you start farthest away from the master or closest? > I've read two seperate responses. Bentley says further and I trust it > like bible. I've done it almost every possible way and I've never found that any way worked any better than any other. It's always a good idea to go all around the car, bleeding each wheel until you get fresh fluid out, and then do it all over again just to make sure that you got all the air out. It should not be necessary to do it a second time. The best way to bleed a completely empty system is to just open each valve in turn and let it sit until fluid comes out. Gravity will do the work and it will happen painlessly if everything is dry when you start. It takes a rather long time, however, maybe 20 minutes. > Second, my local VW mechanic says it's illegal for him to rebuild my > master cylinder. Is this nation wide or am I just geographically > cursed? It's possible that you're "geographically cursed," but I suspect that this just an excuse. Mechanics don't fix things anymore; they just replace things. They make more money this way and they make it faster. I checked with my favorite foreign FLAPS recently and they told me that NO ONE buys rebuild kits anymore. At least here it's not a change in the law, it's just a change in mentality. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~