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the brakes saga....

I managed to get my troublesome brake drum off today, last time I was trying I sprayed loads of WD40 at it and in the meantime it must have worked it's magic.

Inside I found the piston had a big hole worn into the seal on one side, the whole of the inside was greasy, I assume hydrolic fluid. the rearmost shoe also seemed loose, I could rock it back and forth (or side to side more correctly), it seemed something was missing but I have no idea what, it seemed to have all the same parts as the foremost shoe.

I cleaned everything up as best I could with rags and fitted a new cylinder (pattern) that I ordered months ago, refitted, adjusted etc.

I then set-up the gunsons wonder gadget thing (eezi-bleed) which worked like a charm, it holds about half a litre of brake fluid and in total I put around 3/4 of a litre through the systep, concentrating on the new cylender and the opposite side at the rear also.

I'm fairly sure it's properly bled now and that should also have renewed the fluid in the system so I'm happy with that.

However the brakes are definatly better but I'm not happy with them yet.

I intend to buy new drums and shoes for the rear (do the shoes come with new springs and other gubbins?)

And new pads for the front while I'm at-it. I still have the new cam-adjuster kit here which I'll fit at the same time as the drums and shoes. Then if that doesn't make me happy... who knows......

Whoever first suggested the eezi-bleed, thank you, lovely tool that.

Regards. Mark.(AKA, Mr.Nice.)

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Mr.Nice.
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Me I think (hope!). It's the nearest I'll ever get to the air line powered gizmo I saw in a tyre/brake place in Welwyn Garden City about 20 years ago: tube attached to bleed nipple at one end and into the bottom of a reservoir at the other. Airline attached to reservoir in such a way that the air released across a small orifice in the reservoir created a vacuum and sucked the brake fluid out of the bleed nipple. Have I explained that in anything approaching a meaningful way?

TTFN

Richard

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Richard Savage

Ahh the wonderous WD40 what would we do without it

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Simon Mills

A friend of mine (in WGC funnily enough) used to have a vacuum pump that worked in the same way but you connected it to a tap. You then turned the tap on and hey presto, one vacuum pump.

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Simon Barr

On or around 5 Oct 2004 08:35:36 GMT, Simon Barr enlightened us thusly:

the really clever thing is the way steam engine injectors use steam from the boiler to propel water into the same boiler. It shouldn't be possible.

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Austin Shackles

I'll have to take you word on that, I'm not up on steam engines. Sounds like one of them perpetual motion thingys that don't exist.

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Simon Barr

Twas Tue, 05 Oct 2004 07:26:08 GMT when "Simon Mills" put finger to keyboard producing:

hit it with a big hammer until it broke, that's what we'd do without it...

Regards. Mark.(AKA, Mr.Nice.)

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Mr.Nice.

On or around 5 Oct 2004 09:23:25 GMT, Simon Barr enlightened us thusly:

it's dead cunning. the injector uses live steam to accelerate the water and this moving water has momentum, which extra energy manages to get it into the boiler. At least that's how I assume it works.

traction engines sometimes have mechanical pumps, which are slower but run on less steam pressure.

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Austin Shackles

After cutting all the old stuff off the Rangie I got myself a 2.5 litre can of Plus gas...COMEON NUTS COMEON!!!!

Of course they know now that if they don't comply they are likely to get torched.

:-)

Lee D

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Lee_D

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