big-vee-twin
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| posted on 24/4/11 at 12:18 PM |
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Wilwood Bleed Nipples (again)
Some of you will have seen my previous post about breaking the Wilwood nipples.
After that Debarcle got everything sorted, I replaced the broken nipple with a standard Stainless Steel nipple which works fine.
Noticed this morning that all the Wilwood brass/steel nipples are weeping no matter how I tighten them, the replacement is not.
Question is how many of you guys have replaced your Wilwood brass inserts due to poor sealing and would it be ok to replace with stainless
one's
Will stainless react with the aluminium caliper body?
Thanks
Duratec Engine is fitted, MS2 Extra V3 is assembled and tested, engine running, car now built. IVA passed 26/02/2016
http://www.triangleltd.com
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bob tatt
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| posted on 24/4/11 at 02:15 PM |
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had mine on three years now never had any issues with leaking at all.
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britishtrident
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| posted on 24/4/11 at 03:36 PM |
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Some Lock "n" Seal on the threads
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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tomgregory2000
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| posted on 24/4/11 at 04:27 PM |
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brass and alloy is one of the worst combinations ever
stainless and alloy is much better
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henryc
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| posted on 24/4/11 at 04:38 PM |
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Glad I'm not the only one to have broken those stupidly small aliminium bleed nipples - did the manufacturer ever try and use them themselves?
Annoys me to have something so simple be so rubbish. Did you replace the whole lot or just the aluminium part?
Cheers,
Henry.
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big-vee-twin
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| posted on 24/4/11 at 04:50 PM |
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I replaced the broken one with a single piece stainless one which seems to work much better, think I will swap them all.
For those of you who didn't see it here is the broken nipple
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Bleed nipple near disaster
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Duratec Engine is fitted, MS2 Extra V3 is assembled and tested, engine running, car now built. IVA passed 26/02/2016
http://www.triangleltd.com
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Johneturbo
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| posted on 24/4/11 at 06:04 PM |
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when i first built the car and fitted them new from rally design they leaked straight away after bleeding them.
they sent me free replacements which were fine, but recently i had to disconect the flexi so had to re bleed one and it leaked
some ptfe tape seems to have cured it, i was really careful not to over tighten it.
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PeteS2k
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| posted on 24/4/11 at 06:20 PM |
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What thread is the Wilwood brass bit, and what stainless part do you use as replacement? Just so I know if and when mine go!
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big-vee-twin
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| posted on 24/4/11 at 09:52 PM |
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They are M10 x 1.0
Here's the replacement Wezmoto Stainless Steel Bleed Nipple M10 x 1.00 Single on eBay (end time 22-May-11 16:25:54
BST)
[Edited on 24/4/11 by big-vee-twin]
Duratec Engine is fitted, MS2 Extra V3 is assembled and tested, engine running, car now built. IVA passed 26/02/2016
http://www.triangleltd.com
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