RE: Suggestions on keeping bleeder screws from seizing up

["Widiker, John D" <john.widiker@xxxxxxx>]

When I swap wheels or have occasion to be under the car I give them a
preventative shot of WD40 (I switch wheels a few times a year) and when
actually loosening them I hit them with PB blaster penetrating oil a couple
days ahead until I do the job. Whatever you do don't use heat! My high
school shop teacher relayed a fire story that claimed a corvette because the
brake fluid was flammable. I've never verified that as a fact but I'm not
taking any chances. 

~John

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Haas [mailto:mhaas@xxxxxxx] 
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 6:04 PM
To: mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Suggestions on keeping bleeder screws from seizing up


I'm this close (imagine me holding my index finger and thumb close 
together) from fixing the brakes on the 67 American wagon I picked up just 
before Christmas and I want to avoid a problem I've had with my 68 American 
- frozen bleeder screws. The big problem with them (from what I was told 
when the last one broke when the master cylinder was being changed out) is 
that the screws are only 1/4" so any stubbornness at all just about 
guarantees that they'll snap off. Any suggestions on what I can do to them 
to reduce the likely hood of them seizing on me? I've though of plain on 
anti-seize compound but I'm not sure how well that reacts with brake fluid.

Thanks,

Matt

mhaas@xxxxxxx
Cincinnati, OH
http://www.mattsoldcars.com
1966 Rambler Rebel
1967 Rambler American wagon
1968 Rambler American sedan
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