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Thwaites 2 Ton Two Cylinder Dumper Running On One Cylinder
vtsteam:
Oh man, yelling to the lady in the drivers seat "Now hold it down!" while lying upside down under the car with a wrench on the slave cylinder, opening it up and brake fluid squirting in your face, and dripping down your arm, and she in front letting off the brake before you got it screwed back on, sucking in the air........ those were the days!
Eventually I got so I could prop my heavy tool box on the brake pedal, scoot under the car, loosen and tighten the screw before the pedal hit the floor. Well before I discovered the tube in the jar method. :doh:
edward:
I went through that pedal-wife-swearing cycle a few times and in the end I bought an easi-bleed kit which uses a reservoir pressurized using tyre pressure to drive the fluid through from the header - just open the bleed nipple, let the fluid flow and then shut it off when it flows clean or you have collected enough to be sure it has changed everything in the line. No danger of air sucked back in or anything.
All fine until you snap a heavily corroded nipple off in the cylinder. Much swearing ensued!
This is all on conventional cars though, the dumper seems to be a whle different kettle of fish:)
this one http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gunson-G4062F-G4062-Eezibleed-Kit/dp/B001KTFIWA/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1447978388&sr=8-4&keywords=brake+bleed+hose
awemawson:
I agree about the Eezybleed , it was one of those I couldn't find. I can see it in my mind, tallish square cardboard box, predominantly yellow, with a plastic reservoir and various master cylinder caps, and of course the pliable rubber tube. Now I've done the job you can guarantee that it'll show up any day now.
The possible second hand steering ram turned out to be a different shape. I've bought a seal kit for the original ram, and assuming it dismantles ok I'll have to find a way to re-engineer the end eye to lose the gross wear. Maybe build up with weld and re-machine, or possibly cut off and weld on new.
edward:
I feel your pain. Recently spent longer than the job should have taken looking for my oilfilter socket. Of course the blasted thing turned up in a different tool box the day after the replacement arrived!
awemawson:
Time to attack the steering ram that articulates the front and rear of this dumper. It's leaking hydraulic oil quite badly, and it's spherical bearings (rod and cylinder) are badly worn.
I'd sourced a set of seals for it that are allegedly correct, but the supplier couldn't give me actual dimensions, there is no guarantee this cylinder is original so it was a bit of a chance if they fit.
So first whip it off having moved ram to closed position to expel as much oil as possible and identified the hoses and blanked them off.
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