That's what I did. I found an auto console that was pretty beat up. I cut the top plate for a 4 speed, designed a trim piece to go around it and had sendcutsend.com make and powder coat it for me. I then took a piece of thin aluminum and made a 'panel' to cover the pitted and beat up...
I put Teflon tape on the threads for that reason. I was still getting small bubbles fairly constantly, I'm not sure if they were in the system or I had a loose connection somewhere or they were still pulling past the threads.
I replaced the speed bleeders with regular bleeders and hooked my MityVac to each caliper. I pulled a reservoir full of fluid through each one and got a ton of air out. It must have been trapped just right that regular bleeding wouldn't push it out. The pedal is mostly rock solid now with...
Well, I got the new master installed and plumbed. Have now bled these things about 5 times, and still have a squishy pedal for the first half.
Hooked up my power bleeder pumped it to 10 psi, opened a bleeder and nothing came out. Pushed the pedal a little and the master sprayed fluid...
I always followed that rule too, but I just got a new set of subs with neodyum magnets on them. Each sub weighs only a couple pounds and the magnets are smaller than a hockey puck. They hit harder than the JL's I used to run 20 years ago. I really wasn't expecting much out of them...
I'll be the odd man out here and toss one in the hat for FiTech. I've been running mine issue free since the day they came out about 8 years ago. I have read many horror stories about them, which most are installer error. The Sniper does seem to have a little more tunability available in...