Morris Minor Owners Club

hello we are going to look at the brakes on the morris is there any problems bleeding the front brakes as i understand morris brakes arent the esiest to do .thanks. grandad

If you are just bleeding them as part of a service there should be no problems as sometimes occurs with cylinder replacement.

having drums offto clean and see what state of shoes and any weeping seals.just being carefull as i would like my wife to drive it some times,got new seals incase needed..grandad

If it were me, I'd bleed all the way around not just the front .. but then I'm a glutton for getting oily so....

yes we will be doing all the brakes,,grandad

My tried and trusted method - length of clear plastic tube in a jam jar with an inch of fuid - make a cup of coffee - put tube on nipple and open nipple - drink coffee. You 'may' need to press the pedal down and let slowly up once to get the syphon going, but often it runs without outside assistance - because of the residual system pressure caused by the little 'top-hat' rubber in the master cylinder. If any air present you can see the little bubbles travelling along the plastic tube. And of course - in between sips of coffee - top up the master cylinder!

I am going to give your method a go BMC, once my new cylinders are fitted. I normally use a pressure bleeder but don't have a fitting to attach it to the Morris's master cylinder. I could adapt the cap from the old m/c but by the time I did all that, the brakes would be bled (fingers crossed!)

It works - although for new /empty cylinders you may need two presses of the pedal - and perhaps two cups of coffee!

Bmceccose. Can i just claify, you just put on the tube, open the nipple, 1 or 2 pumps and wait?
I have replaced the shoes and cylinders on the front of my MEA tonight and will be bleeding the brakes tomorrow and i have always assumed it was a two handed job. ( 1 opening and closing the nipple and one getting bored pumping the pedal when instructed UP or DOWN )

Well - it works for me! And used it on Minors/Minis and most recently TR7 where I renewed rear wheel cylinder rubbers - and by the time I had nipped in to the house to get the coffee - the brake had bleed through very nicely without me even touching the pedal. There has to be some fluid in the jar of course to make sure it doesn't suck up air if/when you pump the pedal.

Thinking about it there is no reason why it wouldn't work. As long as you (like BMC says) have a bit of juice in the jar and keep the cap off the master cylinder and keep it topped up. Gravity does the rest, a push of the pedal will start the syphon. Looking forward to trying it.

thankyou we willl try let youknow what happens thankyou ,,grandad

nice tip .. i'll try that next time i need to bleed my brakes (the front end is coming off soon so that I can cold galvanise the chassis legs)

BMCEccosse does it work with tea?

minor_hickup wrote:BMCEccosse does it work with tea?

Suppose it depends if you get the brake fluid and the tea the wrong way around!

so is that a jar and tube on each nipple

Only with Earl Grey.
I only do one cylinder at a time - so yes one tube and one jammy.

I agree with BMCecosse - I've used the same method for my Stag though have to admit to eating a bar of chocolate along with the coffee...

Welll - Kit Kat for me !

aupickup wrote:so is that a jar and tube on each nipple

I dare you to try a crocodile clip!