How to bleed brakes

[cmills]

glad I saw this thread, as I had no idea about needing to have the ignition on. Thanks for the help everyone!

 

[1jzgte]

Have wife sit in driver seat.

Roll down windows.

Tell wife to pump the brake pedal and tell her to dont stop til its hard

Once its hard, tell her to keep pushing on pedal.

You loosen bleeder valve and tell wife to follow pedal to the floor with foot and dont put til you tell her to.

Repeat multiple times on each side til it comes out and you dont hear any squirting sounds

ok tell wife to push and pump til its hard and repeat multiple times until u dont hear squirting sounds.. are we still talking about brakes?

 

[sandcrawler]

ok tell wife to push and pump til its hard and repeat multiple times until u dont hear squirting sounds.. are we still talking about brakes?

Once its hard, tell her to keep pushing on

:spit:

 

[kenwilliams0803]

I have one, but it's a mess to disconnect. I liked the idea of using it just for the pressure, but would still have to remove it a few times to check the fluid level. I'm tempted to try one of these at the bleeder screws and maybe to remove some of the old dirty fluid near the bottom of the master cylinder instead of pushing it through.

Yup have to remove it a few times. Never had it make a mess in my engine compartment at all.

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[Speedracer]

ok tell wife to push and pump til its hard and repeat multiple times until u dont hear squirting sounds.. are we still talking about brakes?

yeaa just keep going til she stops squirtin

 

[PeoplecallmeIan]

Check youtube..there are tons of videos on how to do it. If there isn't one for the 5th gen, the principal is the same for basically any car.

 

[DougR]

Harbor Freight Pneumatic Bleeder for $34 is the way to go.

Today, I bought and used a Harbor Freight Pneumatic Brake Fluid Bleeder that was mentioned elsewhere in this thread. Overall, it worked well. I'm offering a few observations that may prove helpful to those who elect to buy one and use it.

Before you start changing the brake fluid, depress brake pedal 40 times with ignition off. This raises fluid level in the master cylinder reservoir about 1/4-inch by releasing fluid trapped in brake booster.

Open a panel on the Cowl Top Ventilator Louver to access the master cylinder as shown in the attached image. There's a hook holding one end of the weather stripping. Press two tabs and move the access panel with weather stripping attached aside.

Siphon out as much brake fluid as you can before beginning the bleeding process.

Screw largest adapter on fill bottle. Fill the bottle with new brake fluid, insert into master cylinder reservoir and open the lever. Squeeze the bottle once if needed to start brake fluid flow.

Fill bottle touches the hood, it's vertical and it didn't fall over. However, the fill bottle nozzle is a little short, such that it maintains a fluid level in the master cylinder that's about 3/8-inch above full. I bled the rear brakes with the fill bottle valve open and closed the valve while bleeding the front brakes. I finished bleeding with a master cylinder reservoir fluid level a little below full.

When the fill bottle is full, one may easily push it too far into the master cylinder reservoir, such that the adapter tabs catch on an inner lip. I used a small screwdriver to pull the tabs back one at a time, wiggling and lifting the fill bottle.

I didn't connect the old fluid collection bottle to a source of 90 psi air. My spouse worked the brake pedal. I used 1-1/5th quarts of new brake fluid to purge the system.

The Pneumatic brake fluid bleeder works well enough that I would buy it again. It maintained the fluid level. I didn't have to frequently check and refill the master cylinder reservoir.

 

[TrkyMfns]

Today, I bought and used a Harbor Freight Pneumatic Brake Fluid Bleeder that was mentioned elsewhere in this thread. Overall, it worked well. I'm offering a few observations that may prove helpful to those who elect to buy one and use it.

Before you start changing the brake fluid, depress brake pedal 40 times with ignition off. This raises fluid level in the master cylinder reservoir about 1/4-inch by releasing fluid trapped in brake booster.

Open a panel on the Cowl Top Ventilator Louver to access the master cylinder as shown in the attached image. There's a hook holding one end of the weather stripping. Press two tabs and move the access panel with weather stripping attached aside.

Siphon out as much brake fluid as you can before beginning the bleeding process.

Screw largest adapter on fill bottle. Fill the bottle with new brake fluid, insert into master cylinder reservoir and open the lever. Squeeze the bottle once if needed to start brake fluid flow.

Fill bottle touches the hood, it's vertical and it didn't fall over. However, the fill bottle nozzle is a little short, such that it maintains a fluid level in the master cylinder that's about 3/8-inch above full. I bled the rear brakes with the fill bottle valve open and closed the valve while bleeding the front brakes. I finished bleeding with a master cylinder reservoir fluid level a little below full.

When the fill bottle is full, one may easily push it too far into the master cylinder reservoir, such that the adapter tabs catch on an inner lip. I used a small screwdriver to pull the tabs back one at a time, wiggling and lifting the fill bottle.

I didn't connect the old fluid collection bottle to a source of 90 psi air. My spouse worked the brake pedal. I used 1-1/5th quarts of new brake fluid to purge the system.

The Pneumatic brake fluid bleeder works well enough that I would buy it again. It maintained the fluid level. I didn't have to frequently check and refill the master cylinder reservoir.

I have the same thing and it works excellently. Hooked up to air, it's truly a one person job.

 

[mack10]

Very helpful thread.