Can anyone tell me the order in which to bleed the brakes on the VR-4 please. Cheers.
Can anyone tell me the order in which to bleed the brakes on the VR-4 please. Cheers.
Furthest away 1st........ that's the way I've always done it, I presume they're dual cct.
You'll need a litre of fluid if your going to flush the system apparently. It's on my to do list.
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I havent had to play with the brakes on my VR4 yet, but when i did brakes at work, we always bleed them from the furthest away from the master cylinder, ie the longest line first. I havent checked, but im guessing that would be rear left on the VR4, so id go RL RR, FL FR? Maybe someone else will know for sure?Originally Posted by Cezco
Does it really matter if I did do them slightly wrong?
That's the way I have always done it. No issues yet.
Yep that is how Ive always done it.Originally Posted by mpau009
RL, RR, FL, FR is the way you do most right hand drive cars as the master is FR.
Not really as long as you have got rid of all the air.Originally Posted by Cezco
Originally Posted by richy rich
Except for Vickys 206, which still has the master cylinder on the LHS. I've never seen linkage for the brake master cylinder quite like it!
Cezco - sounds like if this method ain't right, it's good enough!!
Cheers. I'll do that tomorrow when I fit my new disks and pads :-)
Yes but thats a French skate board not a car so don't count.Originally Posted by Nick Mann
and try to avoid using those sleazy bleed systems, i dont like them, sometimes the cap doesnt fit right, and you end up with brake fluid flying all over the paint work
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Yep second that.Originally Posted by pitslayer
Thirded that - Bought one for the Golf - it's never bloody worked.Originally Posted by pitslayer
I do have a 'one man' bleeding kit (basically a vented container complete with sealed tube and a one way valve in it) and that works very well.
I've made my own in the past using a length of silicon tube a bolt that is very tight in the tube and a bottle/jar .(also need a knife)Originally Posted by Kieran
Push the bolt in to 1 end of tube then put a very small slit in the tube just above the bolt so it just goes in to the ID off the tube(this will make a none return valve) and ha presto.
Yep, that's what I use ... and I use the method described above. Again, no issues hereOriginally Posted by Kieran
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Yep that works as well.Originally Posted by psbarham
did mine last time using a vacum pump thing