On Wednesday night I decided to try and bleed the brakes. It was a stupid idea from the start as I only had around half an hour to get it all done and I was on my own, although I did have a new Easibleed to hand. After checking carefully the Easibleed itself didn't have any leaks in it I filled it with fluid and started bleeding the left rear caliper, tapping it to try and release air. I found that by constantly opening and closing the bleed valve I could encourage more air out. I then moved onto the right rear caliper and it was at this point I noticed a pool of brake fluid on the floor! The rear flexible hose was leaking where it met the bulkhead and it needed to go pretty tight to stop it. Anyway, back to the left rear, then the right rear, then the fronts which seemed to have a lot more air in them that I expected. Running out of time I pulled everything off and pushed the pedal. One problem with the Easibleed is that there doesn't seem to be enough pressure to push the pads against the disks so there was quite a lot of pedal travel initially to just set the pads close to the disks but surprisingly it did come to quite a firm stop! I'd used just under a litre of brake fluid and decided that I would have another go to try and raise the pedal once I could get someone to assist me with the 'up/down' brake pedal method.
1 hour today, 39 hours total.
Posted by charles at September 24, 2003 10:38 PM