[V8] Speed Bleeders- SB7100

[Kneale Brownson]

What I meant regarding the wrench size was do you need an SAE size to open
the bleeder or a metric size?



At 12:50 PM 11/27/2006 -0500, Scott Phillips wrote:
>Kneale, 
>
>Joking...but isn't the MC a pressure creating device enough to say that
>they have been pressure bled? Nope no metric wrench in the blister pack
>:-( 
>
>Scott
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kneale Brownson [mailto:kneale at coslink.net] 
>Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 12:47 PM
>To: Scott Phillips; v8 at audifans.com
>Subject: Re: [V8] Speed Bleeders- SB7100
>
>For the record, Audi recommends that brake system bleeding be performed
>with a pressure bleeder rather than by use of the brake pedal.   Glad to
>hear the bleeders fit OK.  Do the metric threaded bleeders come with a
>metric wrench size for opening/closing?
>
>
>At 11:50 AM 11/27/2006 -0500, Scott Phillips wrote:
>>Listers...
>>
>> 
>>
>>After having a wonderful weather weekend for this late in the year (at
>>least for the Northeast), I had a chance to install the SB7100 (all 4
>>corners are this number) Speed Bleeders into the Calipers on the V8
>>(UFO's & Rears). The new bleeders are a bit longer then the originals
>>(5mm) but went in and work exactly as described. I was able to attach a
>>hose to the nipple and into a clear container, watch (at least on the
>>driver's side) as I pumped the pedal until I finally got clean fluid,
>>closed off the bleeder and had a nice firm pedal. That flushed the
>fluid
>>in about 45 min, and that included getting the old bleeders out,. The
>>rear's weren't too bad as I just replaced the calipers a few weeks ago,
>>but the front were a bit tougher.
>>
>> 
>>
>>I followed the bleeding pattern from the manual RR, LR, RF, LF, RR. I
>>just wanted to close the loop on the brake bleeding thread from a few
>>weeks ago. 
>
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