Best approach to bleeding brakes - Part 2

[DanEC]

Originally Posted by joyridin'

That was before I bought the Speed Bleeders...but it still didn't take me 5 hours.

Hell, I've been building this thing for 3-1/2 years. What would make you think it would take me any less time?

[patrickt]

Man, I'm going to be really surprised if it's sucking that much air past the threads on the bleeder screw on a freshly rebuilt caliper, but what-the-hay.... If Teflon tape doesn't fix it, then I say the caliper had a POS-rebuild job done on it, or maybe you're pulling air in the master cylinder because you're pumping too hard, with too long a stroke, and pumping too quickly.

[joyridin']

Originally Posted by DanEC

Hell, I've been building this thing for 3-1/2 years. What would make you think it would take me any less time?

That is pretty good. My car has been on jack stands for over 3 years just to rebuild the Jag rear and upgrade the brake system.

Took me about an hour to bleed the system by myself.

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by joyridin'

That is pretty good. My car has been on jack stands for over 3 years just to rebuild the Jag rear...

Uhhh, you know you could just ship that bad boy off to Michigan Driveline and have it back in about a week, good as new....

[joyridin']

Originally Posted by patrickt

Uhhh, you know you could just ship that bad boy off to Michigan Driveline and have it back in about a week, good as new....

I had the rear rebuilt last year. That wasn't too bad. It was upgrading the brakes that took so long. Seems like every little thing that would take 2 hours took 2 months. Still waiting on the caliper mounting brackets to be welded and drilled. They were supposed to be done a month ago. Everything else is finally ready to go.

Oh well...at least it will all be right.

[DanEC]

Well, I found speed bleeders at the local PepBoys so I picked some up and installed them today. Of course that didn't go uneventfuly as I had 3 calipers with 3/8 in bleeders and 1 - 5/16 bleeder requiring that I by 3 packs of 2 each. I didn't loose much fluid switching out the front ones but on the rear Girlings it made a pretty good mess. I also jacked the front of the car up pretty high and tapped on the master cylinders with a wooden handle to move any air out of them. I have a pedal now, although as Kevin2 experienced, it seems a little soft still. It may just take some time to get used to it.

Thanks for the help.

Dan