does anyone know how to properly bleed brakes and dont mind helping me with a step by step play. THANKS!

 

this is best done with 2 people.

with the car off, get a buddy to pump the brake pedal until it can't be pumped anymore. when he gets to this point have him keep pressure on the pedal and you turn the bleeder valve on the brake caliper with a little wrench. you will hear air and then get a shot of brake fluid in the mouth

the brake pedal should move to the floor as you relieve the pressure, but once you see fluid just close the bleeder valve.

repeat this at each front caliper to make sure there is no more air, then at the rears if you want to be thorough. i know on my ford it was enough to just do the fronts, but obviously this isn't a ford. just keep some extra brake fluid on hand.

let us know how it turns out.

SSTS

 

thanks bro. Yea my homis is going to help me out with this. But we gonna do it to my girls car first since my car is in the shop. Hse has an accord so I am sure that its the same procedure. THANKS AGAIN!!!

 

Don't Let The Brake Reservoir Go Dry, Or You're Just Letting Air Back In The System From The Top!!!!!

 

good call. thanks for the sanity check. and no problem on the instructions. i doubt you should have any problems.

SSTS

 

Traditionally, it is a good practice to start with the caliper farthest from the master cylinder. Run a clear hose from the bleed screw into a clear glass bottle with some fluid so you can better gauge the quantity of the air. And, as mentioned, if you run the master cylinder dry you are hosed. Good luck!

 

This has been discussed before...Acura's bleed sequence is not to start from the farthest from the master cylinder. I check my Service manual, but I don't take it with me when I travel.

 

sorry to ask but what does this exactly do? some1 wanna fill me in?

im guessin takin out brake fluids from the lines and puttin new brake fluid in?

 

The hydraulic fluid in the system doesn't compress when you apply pressure, but air compresses a lot. This means that if you have air in the lines and hit the brakes, the possibility is that you'll have no brakes because the air will just 'give' instead of transferring your foot pressure to the brake pads and stopping the car. Bleeding gets the air out so that all that is in the lines is hydraulic fluid, dramtically reducing the pucker factor of foot-to-floor-cars-not-slowing-there's-a-wall-OH-CR....

Was that your question? Or did I miss something?

 

If I go for brake fluid flush service.Will all my old brake fluid all out and it that include bleeing brakes to?.

 

yeah it includes bleeding but it's just cheaper to bleed them yourself and just keep putting fresh fluid in the reservoir until you know you got all the old crap out. it's really not difficult to do. i recommend it as a good first project for anyone who wants to jump right in to vehicle maintenance.

SSTS

 

Thanks guys, My homie and I will be tackling this project next weekend. I order some EBC greenstuff for my girls accord and for myself. My brakes are ok but hers has some air trapped in the lines so its kinda dangerous for her to drive around plus my car is in the shop anyways so I cnat work one it. But once again thanks for al lthe inputs. I will update on how we did on my girls accord first. THANKS!!!

 

How did air get trapped in the lines?

 

heat, time, overall usage