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Time to take a road trip to Maplewood! ...(more) (archive)
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Posted by David Zeckhausen on June 18, 2001 at 09:08:51:

In Reply to: My experience posted by VA on June 17, 2001 at 22:15:35:


is that once the factory filled brake system in my car was bleed and the fluid replaced no BMW dealer has been able to reproduce the bubble free factory job, just keep this in mind.

Getting the air out of a brake system seems to be a lost art these days. I don't know why.

Come to my garage in Maplewood, NJ some weekend and I'll set you up. We'll use my pressure bleeder AND we will simultaneously do a conventional bleed with someone pushing on the pedal and me cracking open the bleeder screws at just the right moment to set up a jolt in the fluid that will knock loose any pesky bubbles clinging to the sides of irregular surfaces.

I'll also tap the calipers with a rubber mallet.

If there's any air in the system, we'll get it out. I've not yet met a car I couldn't bleed. :-)

Dave Z.

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