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Bleed like a craze, dad*

Everything back in place and the new stainless flex lines installed. Zippy had one little bit of resistance left, the bleeder valve on the driver’s side refused to move and required some serious vice-grip action to come loose. Very handy to have a large parts stash (read: huge pile of junk) to find those replacement bits!

I got sick of waiting for someone to be available to come over and help me bleed the brakes, so I sprung for yet another one-man brake bleeder. The Motive Power Bleeder actually works pretty well, aside from being a bit messy. I got the Universal kit with adapter 1101.

Braking is now greatly improved.