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Deems RV10 Project
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Date: 7-13-2007
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Number of Hours: 5.50
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Manual Reference: Sec 38 step 11
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Brief Description: Sec 38 step 11
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Today was another situation of a 1/2 hour task turning into an all day event. Bleeding brake lines--- I bought a cheap garden pump from HF, and some fittings and tubing from Ace Hardware. I attached the pressurized pump (full of H5606) to each 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, 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 move past and down line to the res. I tried everything I could, including reversing the situation and applying a vacum. After far 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 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 crossed, resulted in the brakes themselves being backwards!!!!! I've been filing sanding and filling areas around the door jam to 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 order to make a nice contour. Another good news item. I found someone to paint my plane. Rod Drew of Drew Brothers customs 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 building an RV7 himself. We'll use basecoat/clearcoat with color sanding and buffing. (no paint lines)
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Interior door jam filled,filed,sanded w/ SuperFil for contoured appearance
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There should be an easier way
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If you look hard you can see 2 small persistent bubbles in each line 1@1$%^#!!
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