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Help bleeding brakes

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25 Mar 2013 11:01 #66862 by beretta
Help bleeding brakes was created by beretta
Hi, cam anyone give me a idiots guide to bleeding the brakes especially location of the nipples.

Will i have to bleed all the brakes, all that i am going to do is refurb the fromt left caliper, so i will only be touching that one.

Any particular tis to make it easy?


Cheers

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25 Mar 2013 11:14 - 25 Mar 2013 11:16 #66863 by GuardianAngel
Replied by GuardianAngel on topic Re: Help bleeding brakes
Start with bleeding the rear, then passenger side the drivers side nipples.

Then to be 100% sure, the same order again but this time the feeds into the master cylinder.

Make sure the MC never runs dry of fluid.

Essentially you always bleed from the farthest points from the MC and work inwards to the nearest.
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25 Mar 2013 11:22 #66865 by beretta
Replied by beretta on topic Re: Help bleeding brakes
Cheers, do you have a rough location on the nipples?

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25 Mar 2013 11:38 #66869 by GuardianAngel
Replied by GuardianAngel on topic Re: Re: Help bleeding brakes

beretta wrote: Cheers, do you have a rough location on the nipples?


The passenger side rear has a nipple that is exposed behind the back plate off the rear cylinder. The front calipers both have nipples.

Be careful, they are very easy to strip and snapoff if rusted or seized so be careful then trying to undo them!

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25 Mar 2013 15:48 #66895 by supergaz
Replied by supergaz on topic Re: Re: Help bleeding brakes
Use a brake nipple spanner, a normal spanner will round off the nut.

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25 Mar 2013 16:03 #66898 by GuardianAngel
Replied by GuardianAngel on topic Re: Re: Re: Help bleeding brakes

supergaz wrote: Use a brake nipple spanner, a normal spanner will round off the nut.


Good point but the rear nipples are 8mm and I struggled to find any brake spanners this size so had to use a ring spanner which seemed fine.

But for the fronts the nipples are bigger. They are either 10 or 11mm, cant remember. Halfrauds do these sizes.

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