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Old Mar 6, 2005
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proper break fluid flushing Anyone????

how can i do this on my own ???
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1. get something to suck out the fluid from the master cylinder reservoir. (i.e. plastic syrenge ?Sp, or even a turkey baster.)
2. fill it up with the new brake fluid.
3. bleed brakes a couple of times until new fluid comes out of each bleeder on each brake.

dont try and bleed out the remaining old fluid after sucking out the fluid from the reservoir. if you do, your going to have to pull out the master cylinder and bench bleed it. just do it my way by using the new fluid to push out and bleed out the old fluid and youll be fine.
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You can, you just have to buy a brake bleeding kit. I bought one a few years ago from MityVac for like 35 bucks. Its a little hand pump that you connect up to your bleed fittings and pump out the old fluid until it comes out clean. Just gotta make sure the reserviors never go dry.
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thats easy enough!
the level is seem's low i hope i dont have a leak in the rear cylinder's
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Originally Posted by flotsamm
You can, you just have to buy a brake bleeding kit. I bought one a few years ago from MityVac for like 35 bucks. Its a little hand pump that you connect up to your bleed fittings and pump out the old fluid until it comes out clean. Just gotta make sure the reserviors never go dry.
or you can do that as well, and like flotsamm said, if it goes dry, youll have to bleed the master cylinder as well.
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okay! when i bleed them how do i do the order.. Rear to Front Right ?
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I always thought you bleed from the furthest wheel first, but I recall reading that there was some other order also... I dont remember where I read that.
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**** i know what your talking about i just dont know 100%
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Correct bleed sequence is Fr. Left, Fr. Right, R. Right, R. Left. This is directly out of the service manual. No need to curse people.
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