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Old 12-20-2004, 11:20 AM
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Originally Posted by ctaylor738
If you are going to do this yourself, I strongly recommend you spend $40 or so on a power bleeder. Forcing the fluid out with the pedal does a bad thing -it extends the MC piston all the way into the cylinder repeatedly, which is bad for the seals.
I think that I recently demonstrated this concept. My master cylinder sprung a leak while I was bleeding the brakes, using the "pump & hold" procedure. Lesson learned.
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