<VV> year and date corrected

Louis Armer carmerjr at mindspring.com
Wed Sep 1 00:25:02 EDT 2010


>Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 00:20:59 -0400
>To: "Dennis Pleau" <dpleau at wavecable.com>
>From: Louis Armer <carmerjr at mindspring.com>
>Subject: Re: <VV> 69 brake system diagram?
>Cc: virtualvairs at corvair.org
>
>Obviously the Coffee was either "Java" or "Expresso" 
>.................. The only thing that concerns me is maybe the 
>reason you never heard from him again is his brakes got the 
>"jitters" and well ........... as Paul Harvey use to say 
>............... >:-} >:-} >:-} >:-}
>
>FrontMan
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>
>At 12:09 AM 9/1/2010, you wrote:
>>He had been elk hunting around Ouray, CO and broke a brake line to the right
>>rear.  He ended up crimping the broken line.  He then filled the brake
>>system up by pouring coffee from his thermos.  Got them half ass bled and
>>proceeded to drive from 10 to 12 thousand feet down to Montrose which is
>>around 5000' with three wheel brakes and a fluid that would boil at much
>>less than 212 deg F.
>>
>>I repaired the line and he didn't want me to disassemble everything and get
>>the coffee out.  I put a the pressure bleeder on with no fluid in it and
>>blew all the coffee out I could. I then filled up the bleeder with brake
>>fluid and bleed at least a quart of fluid through the system.  It had a good
>>pedal when he drove away.  I never heard back from him.
>>
>>dp
>>
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