| Today was another situation of a 1/2 hour task turning into an all day event. Bleeding brake lines--- I bought a cheap garden |
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| pump from HF, and some fittings and tubing from Ace Hardware. I attached the pressurized pump (full of H5606) to each |
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| caliper, put a barbed fitting on the brake fluid res and a tube into a catcher bottle. proceeded to bleed each brake line. It worked, |
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| up to a point. It appears that air pockets get trapped within the brake cylinders them selves and it's very difficult to get them to |
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| move past and down line to the res. I tried everything I could, including reversing the situation and applying a vacum. After far |
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| too long, I've got it to where I have a small 1/4 - 1/2" long bubble in each line, that no amount of recycling and fluid seems to be |
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| able to move. One GOOD thing about all of this is, I found a MAJOR problem, I had the two lines from the parking brake |
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| crossed, resulted in the brakes themselves being backwards!!!!! I've been filing sanding and filling areas around the door jam to |
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| better finish of the interior, sanded one of them to see how it will look, I am still going to have to put another layer of SuperFil in |
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| order to make a nice contour. Another good news item. I found someone to paint my plane. Rod Drew of Drew Brothers customs |
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| will do it. He painted an RV7 whose paint job I really liked. He's got awards for painting and restoring dozens of autos and he's |
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| building an RV7 himself. We'll use basecoat/clearcoat with color sanding and buffing. (no paint lines) |
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