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    Ethan Graham

    Abstract:   My mechanic has made multiple attempts to bleed the brakes on my Taifun 17E/80hp. Has anyone experienced this and can anyone suggest how to deal with it?


    Subject: Problems bleeding the brakes - ideas?
    From: "Finbar Sheehy" finbarsheehy@yahoo.com
    Date: 6/3/08 4:40 PM
    To: Taifun17E@yahoogroups.com

    My mechanic has made multiple attempts to bleed the brakes on my Taifun 17E/80hp. He says he can't get the air out and doesn't understand why. Has anyone experienced this and can anyone suggest how to deal with it?



    Subject: RE: [Taifun17E] Problems bleeding the brakes - ideas?
    From: Dave Piercy <drpiercy@yahoo.com>
    Date: 6/4/08 12:06 AM
    To: <taifun17e@yahoogroups.com>

    Finbar,

    You can't usually bleed the brakes from the top.

    Best is to inject fluid at the nipple on the main wheel using a hypodermic and have a helper removing excess from the
    master cylinder when it gets over full. That way you push the air bubbles up hill, rather than trying to push them down hill.

    Should be quite quick that way.

    Regards

    Dave


    To: Taifun17E@yahoogroups.com
    From: finbarsheehy@yahoo.com
    Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 23:40:59 +0000
    Subject: [Taifun17E] Problems bleeding the brakes - ideas?

    My mechanic has made multiple attempts to bleed the brakes on my Taifun 17E/80hp. He
    says he can't get the air out and doesn't understand why. Has anyone experienced this and
    can anyone suggest how to deal with it?

     

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    Subject: Re: [Taifun17E] Problems bleeding the brakes - ideas?
    From: Fly10yy@yahoo.com
    Date: 6/4/08 7:07 AM
    To: Taifun17E@yahoogroups.com

    TRY PULLING THE LINES IN THE WHEEL WELLS DOWN A BIT TO LET THE AIR BUBBLES AT THE TOP TO GO THROUGH TO THE CYLINDER. A PRESSURE POT WILL HELP AS A LOT OF PRESSURE IS NEEDED TO MOVE THE BUBBLES OUT OF THE LINE TOM



    Subject: Re: [Taifun17E] Problems bleeding the brakes - ideas?
    From: Bob Gurr gurrini@yahoo.com
    Date: 6/4/08 9:12 AM
    To: Taifun17E@yahoogroups.com

    Easy to do. Rig up a hand squeeze pump to push the brake fluid into the system from the brake caliper bleed screw. connect a tube from the pump to the bleed screw knob, loosen the screw then pump, close the screw between pumps, do this slowly to avoid squirting fluid up out of the master cylinder. Put a small baffle in the master cylinder to help prevent this squirting. This way all the air bubbles will be driven UPWARDS thru all the brake lines. I do this by myself, but two guys will make it easier.

    Bob Gurr N11VR


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    Bleeding by pushing new oil from the caliper via the reservoir is the only way however even if you have removed all the air your brake could still be mushy misleading you toward presence of air when the problem is a rubber brake line that is too weak. When I bought my Taifun the owner was charge lots of hours by the mechanics that triec to bleed the brake before understanding that the brake line was weak and were bulging. A new set of braded brake line make the brake very effective.

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