bleeding brakes.......

mustangman70 · Feb 6, 2006

Hey cam someone help me out rel quick....... is there a certain order in which to properly bleed the brakes.....

milner351 · Feb 6, 2006

yup
Start at the furthest wheel from the master cylinder... which is the passenger rear.

If you have a helper, it makes it go a lot quicker.

I use a piece of vacuum line, and a glass jar with some new fluid in it. Crack the bleeder screw with the line attached and sitting in the fluid.

Have your helper pump the brakes several times, you'll see some bubbles come out, and some older darker fluid, and the fluid from the jar will be sucked back into the system each time they let up on the pedal.

have them cycle the pedal several times until you don't see any more bubbles.

Then, tell them to press on the pedal SLOWLY, as they are pressing the pedal down, you tighten the bleeder.

Repeat on the remaining three wheels.

If your pedal still isn't where you want it, you may need to adjust up your rear drums if you still have them.

mustangman70 · Feb 6, 2006

Ive never heard it like that :dunno:

I thought i just (using you wheel order)

Just have somebody pump them....hold on the pedal, then loosen up the valve....close it and repeat...

Aslo do i have to take the wheels off???

Pbum5 · Feb 6, 2006

Milner is correct.

Passenger Rear, Driver Rear, Passenger front, driver front.

You don’t have to remove the wheels to do it.
But if you already have the wheels off the bleeders are easier to reach.

rbohm · Feb 6, 2006

yep like the others said

right rear
left rear
right front
left front

mustangman70 · Feb 6, 2006

Thanks guys....but whats up with the bottle of fluid and line gimmick?

Im confused on that, is he reffering to taking taking the cap off of the M/C and putting the line in there? .....

Pbum5 · Feb 6, 2006

mustangman70 said:
Thanks guys....but whats up with the bottle of fluid and line gimmick?

Im confused on that, is he reffering to taking taking the cap off of the M/C and putting the line in there? .....

No not the M/C. The line into the M/C is if you are bench bleeding you M/C.
Sounds like you just want to clean out your current fluid.

The bottle and hose is used to remove the old/dirty brake fluid and not have it spill all over the place.
By using the hose and having it lead to an old bottle you can avoid making a mess.

Connect the hose to the nipple of the bleeder.

When you loosen it the old fluid will drain through the hose and in to the jar/bottle.

As you bleed the brakes be sure to check the M/C and refill as necessary.

You should also buy a Chilton.

dennis112 · Feb 6, 2006

Rusty67 · Feb 6, 2006

My 2 cents:
Chilton guides have caused me nothing but heart ache. Go get yourself the correct for shop manual for your car. Its worth the few extra bux. You can get them from different Mustang shops or try books4cars.com. Thats where I got mine, used but it was all there in its original fasion. That book has been like a bible for me when I've worked on my car.

mustangman70 · Feb 6, 2006

ah ok thanks alot Pbum....and i have a chiltons and an original shop manual......im at work right now and i cant look at them, and i figured i could get answeres here...then just go home and start doing it lol

68keyblr · Feb 6, 2006

If you want to make it a really easy 1 man job, you can get a hand pump to suck the air/fluid out. I got mine for $35 and it works like a charm! Bled the brakes by myself in 20 mins.

http://store.summitracing.com/defau...ch&DDS=1&N=115&target=egnsearch.asp&x=31&y=13

mustangdave · Feb 7, 2006

Another option for one man bleeding are the speed bleeders that replace the regular ones. They have a check valve so you can pump the old fluid out by yourself and when you let off the pedal, no air can go back in.
That being said, the best results I ever obtained were gravity bleeding; just takes a really long time and attention to know when to refill the m.c.

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