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- From: colombo@bronco.fnal.gov
- Subject: Re: Bleeding Brake Lines on a Ford F-100: I need help!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.222218.1@bronco.fnal.gov>
- Sender: daemon@linac.fnal.gov (The Background Man)
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- Organization: Fermilab Computing Division
- References: <1993Jan16.210849.15430@trentu.ca> <13894@limey> <1993Jan25.215010.1@bronco.fnal.gov> <1993Jan27.165839.20651@berlioz.nsc.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:22:18 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan27.165839.20651@berlioz.nsc.com>, alan@lancaster.nsc.com (The Hepburn) writes:
- > In article <1993Jan25.215010.1@bronco.fnal.gov>, colombo@bronco.fnal.gov writes:
- > |> In article <13894@limey>, sheriffp@Software.Mitel.COM (Peter Sheriff) writes:
- > |> >
- > |> > The bleed nipples are 3/8" AF not metric. Use a six sided socket to
- > |> > start the nipple moving and then put a box wrench on it to do the bleed.
- > |>
- > |> The wrench has 4 1/2 (nearly five sides), I just looked at mine.
- > |> I'd like to see you get a six-sided/box wrench over the tubing.
- > |>
- > |>
- >
- > What usually works for me is to put the wrench on the nipple and then attach
- > the tubing, or to put the tubing through the wrench and then attach the tubing.
- > It's really not that hard!
- >
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- Sorry, I was thinking of the brake line itself, not the bleeder screw.
- This of course doesn't mean that it will come off any easier.
- But you don't want to use a box wrench around the brake line tubing,
- unless you want to leave the wrench around the tubing, right? :-)
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