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Your issue with the o-ring reminds me of the time my buddy and I tried replacing the flex-line to one of his rear brake calipers. We rented one of the vacuum bleeder pumps from Auto-Zone, replaced the flex line, slightly loosened the bleeder cap and went to town. Sucked a ton of air out as the new line filled, but then there was a constant stream of tiny bubbles. He wanted to make absolutely sure that the line was clear, so he kept pumping and kept filling the reservoir. At first we thought maybe something about the way his original flex line failed catastrophically had introduced air all the way through the system, but the bubbles just kept coming. A full bottle of DOT3 later, we were questioning and trying to figure out where the bubbles were coming from, which turned into a fine-comb search of the entire brake line all the way back to the front of the car looking for pinholes, weeping, etc. After maybe 2 hours of searching, we found nothing. Continued pumping through a second bottle of DOT3, and then we realized that the air was seeping in through the threads of the bleeder cap and could be safely ignored. We felt real stupid.

It's about time I do a brake flush on my car, so it's good I remembered this story so it's fresh in my mind.


Something I've done to help with this is wrap the bleeder threads with PTFE tape. It will make a one time seal on the non-taper threads, but it's enough for a flush


I'm glad that something in the post helped you remember something useful. You are spot-on with your description of the situation.

Good luck to you.


This map lists Portsmouth, NH as having the zip code 00210 - 00215, which... aren't valid zip codes. It does also show Portsmouth with the correct zip of 03801 - 03804. I wonder how that happened, and if there are any other weird errors? Honestly this is exactly the outcome I had wanted when I started smacking in codes starting with 000, then 001, and 002 actually had a little blip stayed highlighted so I investigated further.


It also has errors with the locations of ZIP Codes. 92018 is on the coast but it's shown as near Ramona CA. 92010 doesn't exist.


I got an email the other day saying I had a new voicemail. The content of the email was regarding a new voicemail I received, and I should click the attachment to listen to it. The header and info was from some service that I had never heard of and we definitely don't use. Also, the entire message was a screenshot of an actual email, so there was no text, just one image. The attachment was a .html file.

I reported it for phishing and I kid you not, less than 30 seconds later I got a response "Email is not suspicious"

What do you MEAN email is not suspicious? This is the most suspicious email I have ever received!


Recently I had been looking for a specific map of a local trail system and found a map store near me that might have it, and had seen this exact map in the store. Crazy to see it here a couple days later!

I believe you should be able to get it shipped wherever. https://www.mapcenter.com/store/p/upside-down-world-by-rober...


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