Today we worked on Ethan’s other plane, a 1982 Wag-a-Bond. He had skis on it this winter and needed help bleeding the brakes when he took the skis off.
Remove the cap from the master cylinder, unscrew the small bleeder screw from the bleeder seat/fitting/adapter on the bottom of the brake caliper (**not the larger fitting**) and use an oilcan and some soft clear plastic tube to pump fluid from the bottom up, through the brake, hose, and into the master cylinder, until the master cylinder is almost full. It should only take 10-20 pumps. Then you close the bleeder and test the brakes. A few cycles of pump-hold-bleed may be required to push bubbles out.
We also popped a tail wheel tube and changed the tire on the grass next to the taxiway.
We flew over a 900 foot long manmade private lake that looks like a nice seaplane base for someone! It was built for waterskiing and fishing.
