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Thanks for this additional reply. Pulling a vacuum from the bleeder screw may be problematic since air can be pulled past the bleeder screws and you might not ever achieve a vacuum there unless you can install an open port in place of the bleeder screw and attach your MityVac or other tool to that port. I pulled vacuum at the reservoir end as was recommended in several forums and videos. It did pull air up to the reservoir but without straightening all the kinks in the system that act as traps it could not evacuate all the air. I spent multiple hours at 25 psi and never successfully bled the system. In theory it should work great though.

I'm a longtime manual transmission driving speed-shifter with broad experience push-starting or roll-starting vehicles with dead batteries or other problems. I have even had one automatic transmission vehicle that could be started by putting the transmission into forward or reverse gear and turning the key so that the starter bendix drive pinion gear would engage and rotate the flywheel until it cranked the engine. Gasoline engine - 283 cubic inch Chevrolet with a PowerGlide transmission behind it. This was in a 1946 Chevy PU that had no top speed that I ever found. It would go faster until your own common sense took over.

Downshifting and upshifting by RPM are useful skills for anyone driving a vehicle with a manual transmission. Catching the point where your RPMs allow you to slip into a lower gear takes a little practice. You should do like I did and refine your skills in an old Ford dump truck with dicey hydraulic brakes, one headlight bulb, no windshield wipers, and a 6 cubic yard load of crushed limestone in the dump bed. It's more fun that way.



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