Bleeding, something fishy in chiltons manual?!

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V6UnderPressure

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Ok, I've read the posts, and was told that to bleed the brakes you need to start farthest from the master cylinder. In otherwords, right rear, left rear, right front, left front. In the chiltons manual, they say to start with the left rear and then go to the right rear. Which one is correct!!!!???

Scott
 
Those Chilton people... They were probably writing the chapter as they were facing the front of the car... :)

Right rear/left rear, driver/passenger side.. I was always taught to bleed furthest away from master cylinder first, which would be passenger side rear on our cars, unless you have the right hand drive option Turbo Buick. There was probably a very good reason to bleed from furthest away to closest, though I have never noticed a difference in pedal feel or stopping performance when I had to replace a caliper, etc.. and only had time to bleed one end.

Make sure you depress the proportioning valve plunger with a clamp or something while you are bleeding, and bleed brakes as usual.

Good luck

Billy
Montgomery Village, MD
 
For the rear, it honesly doesn't make a difference. There's one rear hard line that splits at the rear axel and heads to each side. They're both equi-distant from the master cylinder.

You do need to do the passenger front before the driver front, as the difference in tubing lengh there is several feet.
 
Originally posted by Turbo6inKY
For the rear, it honesly doesn't make a difference. There's one rear hard line that splits at the rear axel and heads to each side. They're both equi-distant from the master cylinder.

You do need to do the passenger front before the driver front, as the difference in tubing lengh there is several feet.

thats exactly what I had figured, just wanted to make sure. Thanks!
 
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