A day off to supervise some garden work today, so I took a bravery pill and had a go at filling the braking system. To do this single-handedly I used a Gunson's Eezibleed kit, which is basically a way of feeding fluid into the system under pressure to (in theory) force the air out. Using it involved fitting a temporary cap to the master cylinder connected to a plastic bottle, which in turn connects to the valve of a spare tyre, or for me one of Matthew's go-kart wheels inflated to about 20psi.
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| Eezibleed in use |
Once this was connected up it was simply a matter of attaching a plastic tube to each of the bleed nipples in turn, opening them and letting the fluid exit into an old bottle until there are no more bubbles. After I'd done this twice, the brake pedal felt fine and the handbrake worked! This all seemed a bit too easy after reading of other builders' issues, so maybe I've missed something.
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| Bleed tube attached to near-side rear brake |
I spent most of the rest of the day doing bits and pieces, including fitting the edge trim to the wheel arches, tie-wrapping the rear wiring, checking the torque of the rear suspension and enlarging the holes in the boot box where the seatbelts pass through it. I did this so that they could be torqued down without damaging the fibreglass. The hardest part of all this was refitting the roll bar, which did
not want to be bolted back up.
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| Looks the same as a previous picture, but this time its really really finished at the back (I think) |
Running out of jobs to do now and no sign of any IVA kit instructions from Westfield, so I might have to have a go at the remaining under-bonnet plumbing and wiring.
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