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Bleeding the brakes
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:35 pm
by SUZIE
Hi There
Okay I am nearly finnish with the suspension part on the buggy, need to blead the brake this weekend, at whish wheel do you start?
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:38 pm
by 4agedub
I normally start at the back and then do the front wheels.
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:38 pm
by SUZIE
any spesific wheel at the back? or any one?
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:41 pm
by 4agedub
No specific one... Maybe do the left rear first as the brake pipe is a bit longer. But I do not think it matters
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:51 pm
by SUZIE
Thanks 4agedub
i will try it that way
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 9:33 pm
by hitlers revenge
You start with the wheel furthest away from the brake fluid bottle. Therefore find your bottle and then find the wheel furthest away from it. On your buggy your bottle could be on any side. Mine is on the left therefore I start with the right rear wheel.
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 9:38 pm
by Chris
So,in your case,after you have found the bottle,you wont see the wheels because the car is parked too far away from the bar!
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 10:34 pm
by ZeroAxe
hitlers revenge wrote:You start with the wheel furthest away from the brake fluid bottle. Therefore find your bottle and then find the wheel furthest away from it. On your buggy your bottle could be on any side. Mine is on the left therefore I start with the right rear wheel.
Sorry to be an nit-picker, but you are wrong. The correct way is to start furthest away from the MASTER CYLINDER. So that means passenger rear, driver rear, passenger front, driver front. The bottle has got nothing to do with it. Its main purpose is to 'feed' the master cylinder with brake fluid. Now, saying that, there have been cases that people just could not get those last little pesky bubbles out of the system and as a last resort, bleed the brakes in reverse order, with good results.....
Hope this sheds some light on the subject for you...
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 8:22 am
by Merlin
ZeroAxe wrote:Sorry to be an nit-picker, but you are wrong. The correct way is to start furthest away from the MASTER CYLINDER. So that means passenger rear, driver rear, passenger front, driver front.
*lol* You forget to mention...you're in a LHD country.
Swop those around eh?
The '66 has gone in today as well...seriously crap pedal action, and the front right brake is ridiculous.
Back tomorrow in time for holidays.
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 9:05 pm
by ZeroAxe
Merlin wrote:ZeroAxe wrote:Sorry to be an nit-picker, but you are wrong. The correct way is to start furthest away from the MASTER CYLINDER. So that means passenger rear, driver rear, passenger front, driver front.
*lol* You forget to mention...you're in a LHD country.
Well, let the nit-picking continue..... I have PURPOSELY not mentioned left or right. Hell, you even re quoted the right sentence for me!! So I stand by my point
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 9:36 pm
by hitlers revenge
Zeroaxe. Sorry man I was dead tired last night. Imeant the master cylinder when I spoke about the fluid bottle.
Chris. Is that the bottle you are bringing to Hermanus?
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 10:03 pm
by ZeroAxe
I assumed that
no worries.
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 10:45 pm
by Chris
Of course it is.Booked our place today at RobinsNest.We are going for the whole long weekend.Will deffinitally see you there,bring steak!
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 11:15 pm
by vader
pompie pompie pompie is all you have to do....
Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 3:09 am
by Bugger