Filling brake fluid reservoirs.

[indianamoon]

Finally got around to bleeding the brakes today. No change in the somewhat spongy pedal but it caused me to need to add fluid to the reservoirs. Up under the driver's side fender, access is, well, less than easy. NO way to pour our of anything into them. Thought about some sort of funnel with a flexible spout, hose and a measuring cup, jacking up the right side of the car really high...... Then I remembered some truely neat plastic dispensing bottles that I had bought years ago to add oil to nearly inaccessible spots on machine tools at the shop. Headed over there, searched the basement, and YES!! I always buy more than I need and that time was no exception.






Hope this helps someone else. The source was US Plastics, try Thermo Scientific

And if anybody can give me a hint as to why the brakes are still spongy with no air in the lines, I would certainly appreciate it.

Thanxalot,

Pat

[mdross1]

When building our car agonized over having to fill the masters so picked a couple of Wilwood masters and the parts to convert to remote reservoirs. Spongy brakes means air still in system or very flexible brake lines at the wheels.

[Ron61]

If you are sure that you got all of the air out of the system, then have someone step on the brake pedal while you watch the brake lines at each wheel and see if they move it tend to swell just a little.

Ron

[133bus]

When I bled the brake on my car I wasted two litters of brake fluid trying to get a firm peddle...bled them over and over with no air appearing at the bleed screw and still very soft brakes...finally I remembered that a lot of the time these parts are from other types of cars so they may not be mounted in the same position...my calipers had been rolled up closer to the top of the rotor which left an air pocket the bleed screw could not get rid of...I took out the top bolt and straightened up the caliper and let it drain...a lot of air came out...problem solved...great brakes...some people take the caliper off and some just jack the car way up in the front...steve