how to bleed master cylinder?

[Brett Dikeman]

At 3:52 PM -0800 3/25/03, Ron Wainwright wrote:
>   Listers,
>
>   I'm going to be replacing my master cylinder on my
>87 5ksq and would like to know how I would bleed it
>before bolting it to the car.

My vote is you just slap it on the car and pressure bleed it; get
someone to press the brake pedal a few times to speed things up and
to make all the air comes out.

If you don't have a pressure bleeder, get one- even the
ezbleeder(which uses a small bottle and a tire inflator widget) is
only about $40, and it makes life much, much easier.  Power it off
the spare, no more than about 15-20 PSI.  Have a big jug of water
ready in case the thing starts spewing fluid everywhere, and make
sure the seal on the reservoir cap is -very- good, or you'll end up
with fluid everywhere- yuck.

HTH,
B
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