Re: Latest project, 1967 VW beetle restoration.
Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2017 10:45 pm
Cheers, even my VW nut son couldn't tell me.
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BTJustice wrote:I was quite lucky as all the bleed nipples were new so not stuck. I usually find the job gets 100 times worse when the nipples are seized then snap off.
The first clue that the master cylinder was goosed came when I had the wheels bled then the pedal lost all pressure undoing the previous hours work.
Boxer6 wrote:BTJustice wrote:I was quite lucky as all the bleed nipples were new so not stuck. I usually find the job gets 100 times worse when the nipples are seized then snap off.
The first clue that the master cylinder was goosed came when I had the wheels bled then the pedal lost all pressure undoing the previous hours work.
One of my first cars was a Mk.1 Golf I bought when it was 9 or 10 years old. It had an auto-choke which never went off, and a poxy wee 1.1 engine! Anyway, that got sold after the m/c failed going down one of the steepest hills in Kirky; the main seal had gone, but the replacement kit I got didn't cure it.
I sold the car with the m/c sitting on the passenger seat to a guy who wanted it for his wife to use as a hay transporter (for her horses) with the proviso I drove it down to his mechanic to be fixed; that was probably the scariest 2 and a bit miles of motoring I think I've ever had!!
BTJustice wrote:Boxer6 wrote:BTJustice wrote:I was quite lucky as all the bleed nipples were new so not stuck. I usually find the job gets 100 times worse when the nipples are seized then snap off.
The first clue that the master cylinder was goosed came when I had the wheels bled then the pedal lost all pressure undoing the previous hours work.
One of my first cars was a Mk.1 Golf I bought when it was 9 or 10 years old. It had an auto-choke which never went off, and a poxy wee 1.1 engine! Anyway, that got sold after the m/c failed going down one of the steepest hills in Kirky; the main seal had gone, but the replacement kit I got didn't cure it.
I sold the car with the m/c sitting on the passenger seat to a guy who wanted it for his wife to use as a hay transporter (for her horses) with the proviso I drove it down to his mechanic to be fixed; that was probably the scariest 2 and a bit miles of motoring I think I've ever had!!
Its a horrible feeling. I had a brake hose let go im my old Audi coming down the hill on Carmunnock road a few years ago.
Pedal straight to the floor and I was in an automatic so had to use the handbrake and keep pumping the pedal in the hope the hill finished before the brake fluid ran out.
Delmont St Xavier wrote:Congratulations!
She has stunning bodywork indeed and the car is equally good mate... ::): ::): ::): ::):
Seriously, well done with the award, it is well deserved.