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On 4 Oct 2003 at 15:50, Phil Castro wrote: > It has been a while since I've been on here and it's > good to be back! Odd, you seem to have posted this message on Sat, but it didn't get to me until tuesday...? > My question has to do with my flasher relay. The problem is that is > clicks all the time when the key is in. It still works fine, but it > clicks endlessly. Is the Relay about to go or is there a wiring > problem. I haven't seen this before. What year, and are the clicks regular and even, or at random time intervals? If they are even, I suspect a wiring error. If random, I suspect that there may be a bad capacitor in the relay, or a bad solder joint to a capacitor in the relay, that is causing it to trigger on electrical noise in the system. > Also, to set up a new master cylinder do you have to fill the lines > with fluid prior to bleeding it for the first time. Don't bother with bench bleeding or anything else. Just install it and bleed it. I've had endless debates with a few Newsgroup personalities who insist that bench bleeding is the way to go. They're wrong. It's not that bench bleeding hurts the process, it's just that it doesn't help ANYTHING (at least on our cars) and it makes the job REALLY messy. They tend to argue that they've always done it this way and it has always worked, so it must be the right thing to do. I agree that it will work, I simply point out that it works JUST as well if you don't bother. The whole point of bleeding is to get the air out of the system. Every part of the system is designed with that in mind, so that it could be assembled dry and then bled afterwards. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org