Saturday, July 1, 2023

Lessons learned on break bleading and why I dont like vacuum bleeding.

Went to flush the breaks on my second 107 today. This is my stock 1988 560SL Delilah. Almost the same as my modified 1986 Samson, except Samson uses a R129 master cyl and big breaks from the SL600. Thought today's bleeding on Delilah would be just as easy as it was on Samson and only require 1 liter of break fluid. In any case after running a full liter of break fluid and running out I still had air appearing in my bleed hoses despite the break pedal feeling normal. I decided to go get... Lessons learned on break bleading and why I dont like vacuum bleeding.
Went to flush the breaks on my second 107 today. This is my stock 1988 560SL Delilah. Almost the same as my modified 1986 Samson, except Samson uses a R129 master cyl and big breaks from the SL600. Thought today's bleeding on Delilah would be just as easy as it was on Samson and only require 1 liter of break fluid.

In any case after running a full liter of break fluid and running out I still had air appearing in my bleed hoses despite the break pedal feeling normal. I decided to go get...

Lessons learned on break bleading and why I dont like vacuum bleeding.

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