Trophy #267
The flame red is getting some braided lines via the group buy so i'm venturing into unknown territory as looking at replacing them myself and never bled brakes or similar before.
Ive done a bit of reading and seen that dot4 stuff is recommended. Car is used for road but do plan on throwing it around the track at some point in the future.
Now reading the various threads it seems you are not supposed to completely drain the brake system as its a pain in the arse to get air out of the callipers ?
Also, I belive brake fluid / coolant is done at 4 years and either 36k or 48k not 100% so is in need of a change as car is currently on 46k and not far off 4years.
The general guide is to swap hoses as fast as possible avoiding air bubbles and with some cling film over the lid of the resevoir (assuming to maintain a vacuum and stopping fluid flowing thru the system).
Are these just screw fit attachments so 2 (each end) per wheel / line (new lines not arrived yet). Once all hoses have been changed im guessing there must be some bleed point / nipple available to purge air in the system on each line to a wheel which can then be used (with cling film removed and whilst topping up resevoir) to bleed the old fluid thru the pipes thus flushing it ?
For this reason im assuming you must have to mix old / new fluid in resevoir for bleeding and that the engine must be running to bleed as system has abs ?
Thoughts please as when i do get round to it I shall take pics and knock up a guide as seems to be a fair amount of info but in various places.
Ive done a bit of reading and seen that dot4 stuff is recommended. Car is used for road but do plan on throwing it around the track at some point in the future.
Now reading the various threads it seems you are not supposed to completely drain the brake system as its a pain in the arse to get air out of the callipers ?
Also, I belive brake fluid / coolant is done at 4 years and either 36k or 48k not 100% so is in need of a change as car is currently on 46k and not far off 4years.
The general guide is to swap hoses as fast as possible avoiding air bubbles and with some cling film over the lid of the resevoir (assuming to maintain a vacuum and stopping fluid flowing thru the system).
Are these just screw fit attachments so 2 (each end) per wheel / line (new lines not arrived yet). Once all hoses have been changed im guessing there must be some bleed point / nipple available to purge air in the system on each line to a wheel which can then be used (with cling film removed and whilst topping up resevoir) to bleed the old fluid thru the pipes thus flushing it ?
For this reason im assuming you must have to mix old / new fluid in resevoir for bleeding and that the engine must be running to bleed as system has abs ?
Thoughts please as when i do get round to it I shall take pics and knock up a guide as seems to be a fair amount of info but in various places.