Actually the "bleeder" ( a misnomer) should be the low point as the customary method is to use it as the "input" for the fluid - you need to pump from the bottom to the top in aircraft applications - that forces all the air in the callipers, lines and master cylinders out of the system .
Rick Human Houston, Texas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Bray" <rsb...@hotmail.com> To: <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 9:24 AM Subject: Re: KR> cleveland brakes > Shouldn't the bleeders go up, thats where the air will be. > > Steve Bray > Jackson, Tennessee > > > > > >From: "Mark Langford" <n5...@hiwaay.net> > >Reply-To: KRnet <kr...@mylist.net> > >To: <1...@lizard.esosoft.net>, > ><hermit...@lizard.esosoft.net>,<t...@lizard.esosoft.net>, "KRnet" > ><kr...@mylist.net> > >Subject: Re: KR> cleveland brakes > >Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 09:23:47 -0600 > > > >Rober Pesak wrote: > > > > > I'm installing Cleveland brakes to my gear legs, anyone tell me if > >the are in front of of the axles or aft of the axles. I'm thinking aft and > >with the bleeders pointing down, but if anyone has used the cleveland > >brakes > >please let me know. > > > >See http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/kgear.html for a photo of how I had to > >do it. I guess the bleeder could go up, but then you'd need a 90 degree > >fitting on the bottom. I will say that I've already knocked my bleeder off > >on the edge of the road while towing (almost trashing the very expensive > >caliper) and have come awfully close to doing that again on the "sidewalk" > >between my hangar and the runway. But if had been a 90 brake line fitting > >instead, it probably would have done the same thing. The good thing about > >the bleeder is that it's aluminum, so it shears off without trashing the > >caliper if you're lucky. > > > >Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama > >see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford > >email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net > >-------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > >_______________________________________ > >Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > >to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > >please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > > > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html >
