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I introduced the illustration because the question Sydney asked on the 20th went unanswered on the 21st and my intent was only to answer why he needed both bleeders on the hydrovac. The accompanying article was meant to explain the illustration. I felt the references to the rest of the Chevy were unimportant to a fellow with an M37. That may have been my oversight in not complying with your program for M37 specific data but as I said above I do not recall any requirements in the forum rules to meet your standards of anything. My reference to 8th grade reading level was about the posted document's level of reading difficulty and had nothing to do with your education so please try not to paraphrase anything I say to fit your rebuttal.

just my opinion.

This sounds odd coming from you. You expect your opinion to be respected yet you hold no other opinion with respect. By respect I mean civil agreement or disagreement with a post or opinion without salty insults and down the nose rhetoric.

In the case above you could have easily expressed your disagreement with the pedal limits in the article by simply posting those limits are not correct or good practice. Everything in your response after that sentence was an overt attempt at regulating the content of another's post on this forum. In my opinion your verbal assault on me was without professional courtesy and violated the posting rules on this forum.

Verbal assault, I guess you figure only I and NOT YOU as being guilty of that? Hmm! Interesting indeed.

Opinions, we all have them don't we?

Professionalism, you can draw your own conclusion. Mine is this, passing on information that is INCORRECT to someone attempting to solve a problem is certainly NOT guidance offered in a professional manner. When pointed out, trying to pass off that incorrect information as being IN GENERAL, as an excuse for being incorrect is a real cop out.

Courteousy, approximately a week or so ago, you and I both participated in a thread attempting to help a gentleman with an engine issue. In his case, many possibilities existed. Troubleshooting the many possibilities was his only option to running down whatever was going on. We both offered some suggestions. As I recall you worked overtime to shoot down all my suggestions almost immediately. I made no comment in response to yours. About the same time the same thing took place in the thread where the gentleman sought direction for installing a turn signal system, again I backed away without further comment. Go back and read. Sure I noticed your discourteous attitude, but simply walked away and let it go. Where was the courtesy on your part then? Bottom line here, we all are guilty of speaking off the cuff in ways that we wouldn't if we took time to think before speaking. That is extremely easy to do in a forum atmosphere. You my friend are no different as we are all human.

A post on the swap meet forum about an engine for sale came up a couple of weeks back. I checked out the e-bay link and misread the guy's asking price. As a result I posted some comments about the rediculously high asking price. Soon someone posted correcting me that the asking price was $400 instead of the $4,000 I had mistakenly read. I posted again thanking him for the correction, acknowledged my mistake and went own to explain why I had made the comments that I had. I had made a pretty serious mistake that I knew needed clarification right away, so I proceeded in the direction of clarity. Had I been in your place, I would have done the same clarification in this instance of the brake bleeding procedure. I certainly would not have showed obvious anger as you have when the error was pointed out. My last thought is I would admit and clarify a mistake on my part any day rather than run the risk of causing someone further problems.

With this said, I'll leave it with you. Thanks.

OK Guys, you have had your say and both sides are entitled to your opinions and said methods, this part of the conversation however should end here......
Feel free to E-Mail or PM me if you have any further concerns.

Regards - MM

Oh man, end? It was just getting good Tony.

I'm with Carter on this one. I could hardly wait for the next episode!!

I'm with MM on this one. I have no desire to see any bloodshed. Seen too much of that already.

Enough already! There's plenty of room here for varying points of view w/o the Moderator weighing in. We chase off new forum people over such heated debates, and we've all on occasion posted info that is questionable, incomplete or incorrect (myself included). Infighting is not the way to promote our hobby and our, yes OUR forum
Thanks Robi and MM for keeping us civil
Gary