Re: [T3] Nadine is home again

["Keith Park" <topnotch@nycap.rr.com>]

<x-charset iso-8859-1>IF your brakes start acting up, and bleeding cures it... you havent found
the real problem.  While bleeding can dislodge contaminants and temporarily
cure some problems... you have to ask how the air is getting in there?  at
several hundred PSI if there is a hole the fluid will leave it.. when your
bleeding are you seeing air??  if there is no air then they didnt need to be
bled and the problem is elsewhere.
    A properly working system will never need to be bled unless your
breaking open the hydraulics for repairs or changing the fluid.  If it does,
there are other problems that need attention.


Keith

Keith Park

Top Notch Restorations
topnotch@nycap.rr.com
71 Squareback (with no empty nipples!)
65 Notchback (still suckin its gas!)
65 Squareback
75 Opel
87 Golf
88 Rx7 10th Anniversary

----- Original Message -----
From: <veedub@apartment101.com>
To: <type3@vwtype3.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 10:30 PM
Subject: Re: [T3] Nadine is home again


> > It is more likely that the rear brakes need to be adjusted. Bleeding is
> not
> > something that needs to be done on any regular basis, adjusting drum
> > brakes needs to be done regularly as the shoes wear. Our drum brakes are
> > not self adjusting.
>
> Thanks Jim.  In this specific case however, the car had been sitting for 7
> months (more or less) and needed to be bled pretty bad.  In fact, I bled
> them and they're much better now.  I will keep an eye on them however, so
> that in a few months they may need to be adjusted, as you mentioned.
>
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