brake bleeding - which order?!..

smallspeed · Feb 21, 2008

I am putting the brakes back on my car this weekend, and will need to replace the fluid and bleed them.. on other cars Ive done in the past there is a particular order to work through the calipers, usually starting back left and ending front right, and in the case of dual-body calipers like the 964, starting with the outermost bleed nipple first, then the inner most..

My plan is as follows, if its incorrect, or there is a better order can someone let me know..

rear left outer
rear left inner
rear right outer
rear right inner
front right outer
front right inner
front left outer
front left inner

..this is based on some guess work, and some (hopefully) logical thinking

ben

Steve Brookes · Feb 21, 2008

Well, I used the thinking that you should start on the caliper furthest away from the reservoir. My reservoir is on the right wing so my order was:

Left rear
Right rear
Left front
Right front

and each time the outer nipple was done before the inner nipple.

Your order suggests that your reservoir is on the left wing (I think you're LHD?) so in your case I would be starting with the right rear not the left rear.

However, from what I saw of the brake lines, having replaced a few, there's no great difference in distance where the lines split to the rear wheels and the line to the front left is much shorter than the line to the front right! [&:]

But the bleeding seems to have worked perfectly for me and it meant I could use the front right tyre for pressue bleeding all the calipers. [

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smallspeed · Feb 21, 2008

i think the brake reservoir is the same side as yours (o/s front) so i will do it in the same order as you have listed
i have a pressure bleeder too, but planning on using the spare..
will post results of how i get on next week; using that superblue fluid so hopefully it will be easy to completely flush the system and start a fresh
ben