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spoke to the garage, didn't tell them anything, just asked why there were cable ties on the valve. apparently the fluid flowed better when they were bleeding and diagnosing with the lever pushed up, although they said they were getting around 90 before they cable tied and 100 after. i would have...
garage have cable tied mine in the up position- does this increase efficiency? i ask, because they charged me to change a caliper but i can still turn the wheel by hand with the brakes on
which way do you cable tie it to increase efficiency at the back, cable tie it to force it up, or cable tie it to force it down? i ask, because a garage have cable tied mine :eek:
as above, it failed mot due to having 150 efficiency on rear nearside and 40 on rear offside. i told them it's low on the rears anyway and showed them the vosa newsletter. they weren't having anything and charged me to fit a new caliper, and it looks like they've cable tied the valve up, i guess...
yeah i spent five minutes trying to fashion something to fill mine through that tiny hole on top, before realising i could whack a hosepipe into the butterfly hole.
so what does that little hole on top do then?
what happens when you start thinking about things...
one of the reasons i want to go manual is to help resolve a steering issue, and swapping the rack rules it out. plus i like the idea of simple. less stuff to go wrong. but if racks never fail, then the workload is either:
pas: swap out pump...
cheers, i've sent some PMs to mike and he's come back with some good info. i've also found this, a rebuilt 2 year warranty Manual Rack Renault Clio 1.5 D dCi 80 (04/02 - 12/05) for £40...