Re: Suggestions on keeping bleeder screws from seizing up

["Jim Blair" <carnuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

A: PBR rubber grease is brake fluid and rubber seal compatible (available 
most British car places) I use it for rebuilding master cylinders, etc when 
they aren't available anymore. Also don't tighten the crap out of them!


From: Matt Haas <mhaas@xxxxxxx>
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


Jim Blair, Seattle, WA '84 J10 Black Jack (getting lifted and stroked!), '73 
J4000 304/TH400/QT tow truck http://www.virtualjeep.com

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