As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
Dead Indians are hard to convince to take a breath and Two Chiefs is amazing us in how it seems every last detail on him has been beat to hell or ripped apart.
Today's adventure was bleeding the brake lines, as the Squaw Man put in a new master cylinder but when I pushed the brake pedal, it just went solid about half way down, like there was nothing there.
So the directions say that you bleed the back passenger brake first, then the driver back brake. Then you move to the passenger front and then the drivers.
I never did this, but sprayed some WD 40 on them, took of the master cylinder cover, and then started crawling around under Two Chiefs to locate these bleeder nipples. This is a close picture of what they would look like, by the brake hose going to the brakes.
I have no idea what the size of this nut was as it was close to 3/8ths, but that would fit on none of these things, so I used a small vice grip and got the first one loose.
What you are supposed to do is open this nipple 1/2 to 3/4s of a turn, put on a rubber hose, about a foot long, submerge the end in a glass bottle so you can see what is going on, and then someone else is to pump the brakes slowly, until the bubbles stop coming up in the brake fluid you have put into the bottle......about 2 inches, as you will get more used fluid in the bottle.
I had a 2 foot long gas hose.......too long as I had to fill that too with brake fluid, so cut it off to a bout a foot long.
My pretty brake fluid was dirty in the first wheel. I learned that if you hold the rubber hose a little tighter on the nipple it helps too. When it is done bubbling, you keep the hose on the nipple, and tighten it down. This is not that easy as it is clumsy, but it does work.
I did the next rear nipple.......worked good.
The problem was the front passenger one. Hard to get at, was old, someone must have really tightened it down as I tried WD 40, I did not have penetrating oil as I picked up, brake cleaner instead, used that, left for awhile and I still was not getting any results. The last thing I wanted to do was twist this off, so I went to the last one, which looked new in someone had replaced it, with a great deal of effort that one came loose too. You do not have to tighten these things down to keep a nuclear missile from blowing them off.
Bled that line and closed it off and with that, got Two Chiefs off the blocks and was going to move him from out by the road to the yard.
His steering is horrid. I think he needs some steering collar or whatever that thing is called and something else like a bearing, will have to see, but got him moving and parked.
The brakes.......well they depress now to about 3 inches off the floor. If I hit them hard, I think maybe they work. I would know more on the road. This F 250 does not exactly roll around as when you put the clutch in, he wants to stay where he is.
So I will check some more, but this may need new brakes. Brakes are something I do not do as they can be corroded, but the older brakes had asbestos in them. Not interested in dying of that, so if brakes are the subject, that is probably something we will get a mechanic to do.
As all things on this pick up, it is like someone was fixing on it, and yet on the driver side rear line when I bled it, out plumed this brown shit like it had never been bled.
I'm thinking that someone parked this pick up in a low spot and water rose in the spring floods to about the engine soft plugs for awhile. Only thing that makes sense with all the other sabotage which was done to this Indian wagon. The remade hub, when I got the shop to pull it off, it tore the bead off and they had a hell of a time as rust was still in the shot tire. I saw tonight that the dumb ass welded it ass backwards as the valve stem is on the inside of the hub. So you would have to crawl under the vehicle to put in air as you rolled the tire and tried not to get run over, to get the valve stem on the bottom.
It is just all this shit, like it is what is in control of this world now. They tell you how smart they are, their ideas sound smart, and then you see them in working in the real world and they are all fucked up.
It is the Pole who can make an atomic bomb and will burn the house down trying to screw in a light bulb.
So that is the brake adventure. More testing to see what is what in how much brakes we do have and we will go from there. Maybe I can get JYG's Mexican to fix this as they probably like huffing asbestos.
Will just have to see how things go as I think the oil change is still pulling clay out of the engine that those damned Indians put into it. Nice part is the gas line is clean. Thank God that part is fixed.
Nuff Said
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