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Re: bleeding brakes!?!?!
I hear you! I know how frustrating it can be to bleed the brake system.
When I first bought my truck, the PO told me the truck had "standup-brakes." Literally meaning the driver had to standup on the brake peddle to get the truck to stop. Even then it didn't really come to a stop. It just kept rolling forward a few inches at a time. Talk about scary. So my first project on the truck was to rebuild the brakes. I replaced everypart one at a time. Every little thing helped a little more than the last one, but, it would not still stop. Finally the last thing to do was the master cylinder. After I bench bled it and installed it I finally had brakes!!
On my girlfriends 1991 chevy pu with hydralic clutch we had a real hard time bleeding that sucker. I mean I tried everying in the book. What finally worked for me was I took a turkey injector (i.e., a really big syringe) and installed a clear hose onto it and I pumped brake fluid up from underneath to the clutch master cylinder. It was easy and I did it by myself! No one to hold down the clutch pedal. It did force the air trapped in the line and brake fluid out of the clutch master cylinder. So be ready to "catch" the spillage from the master cylinder.
Good luck!
Keith
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