Diesel RVs

You got Mechanics and you got Designers. They don’t mix.

From: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com [mailto:diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Nate
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 6:03 AM
To: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [diesel_mercedes] Re: So. Cal. Car Show Sunday 4/14

Yeah ;

Not enough space to switch the hose else I'da done that 20 years ago .

At the car show I met an old Friend who's English and was working on BMC Products back when Mets were new , he suggested taking the drums off and popping out the upper cylinder;s piston *just* enough to let the air burp out then re assemble , he says that's how he's done it for over 50 years....

Sigh .

Sometimes being a Mechanic means doing things in a reverse order .

When new , the cars were back filled with brake fluid from the bottom mounted bleeder screws ~ seems counter intuitive to me but I don't make cars , I just fix 'em decades later .

-Nate

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Bill wrote :
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> I saw a similar situation .somewhere. The previous owner switched the
> bleeder valve and the inlet hose, and it was working when I saw it.
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> I have bled a 'hose higher', not a Metropolitan, by loosening the inlet hose
> and using it as the "bleeder valve." Bill
>
>
>
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> From: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Nate
> Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 5:46 AM
> To: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [diesel_mercedes] Re: So. Cal. Car Show Sunday 4/14
>
>
>
> Because BMC wisely (?) decided to place the front brake bleeder screws 5"
> _below_ the hose connection so they're near impossible to bleed out .
>
> Still no joy , sigh .
>
> Usually there's a few (like three) Mets there , this year not one .
>
> The show was TERRIFIC .
>
> -Nate
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> Bill wrote :
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> > Why not the Metropolitan? It's British. Bill in Oregon
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> > _____
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From: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com [mailto:diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Nate
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 5:58 AM
To: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [diesel_mercedes] Re: So. Cal. Car Show Sunday 4/14

Yep ;

Little British Car .

There were even TWO Bond tri wheel cars ~ these have the look of a tiny automobile but only two wheels in the back , in front is a 198 C.C. Villiers two stroke Motocycle engine mounted on a pivoting bracket thing that's connected to a steering wheel via a worm gear..

This makes it technically a Motocycle and so co$t$ far less to register . no heater , no radio , no _REVERSE_ .

Of course , it _does_ have a normal looking front sheet metal , two head lights , wildly exaggerated pontoon fenders , grille and bumper , windshield with wipers , two doors etc. just like a ' real ' car .

Google " Reliant " to see the newer and more popular vehicles of this typ .

Someone tried very hard to legally import them new in the 1970's , those I remember quite well , the Califonia DMV said _no_ .

The Bond I liked so much was a 1957 tiny little thing .

-Nate