Date: 24 Mar 2005 16:31:58 GMT From: Dave Hinz <DaveHinznospamcop.net> Subject: Re: 9-3 brake rotor
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 16:23:53 GMT, Dexter J <lamealameadingdongnospamlamelame.org> wrote: > > On 24 Mar 2005 15:10:50 GMT, Dave Hinz <DaveHinznospamcop.net> wrote: > >> Nope. Do it the way you said. > Hey brother Dave - I'm not of one position or the other on this one - but > I can see how it might go a some way to keeping any sludge out of the > calliper circuits if you did bleed while you compressed. What sludge? > I think the ABS > issue is irrelevant though. Yes. If your brake fluid is crudded up, then fix that, but it's not relevant to doing pads. Flush brake fluid first maybe, but these days it's not like we're driving around with DOT-3 brake fluid. > You would want to be careful so that you didn't let the piston slip back > and introduce a bubble or go in too fast/far and purge the bore. Speed won't enter into it - bubbles aren't in there, pressing fluid back up won't create them. > But - I > can't see how it would hurt to carefully pressure bleed the calliper > instead of reverse pressurizing the system. It's not necessary, is what I'm saying. Sure, you can bleed your brakes whenever you want, but by their nature, brakes work by fluid going up and down the brake lines in some volume, so by definition they have to allow that to happen. > You would probably want to top up the system after doing each shoe - but > that wouldn't be too hard if you have a pal at hand to pump the peddle. > What am I missing? Sounds like a lot of screwing around for a non-issue, to me. Dave