Ok so i want to bleed all the fluid out of my brakes and replace it with the blue stuff....or another high end brake fluid, how do i do this? THX

 

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I will be doing the same in about 3 weeks during spring break. Hopefully it cures my spongy pedal.

 

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I recommend the power bleeder. It puts pressure on the fluid in the reservoir, which allows you to just twist the bleeder valves and let it stream out.
Since you both live on Long Island, maybe you split the cost of one and bleed together.

 

I've got me a power bleeder coming in right now from Paragon and will be doing this in the next couple of days if I can. Going to the blue myself

 

I did this recently with both the braking and clutch hydraulic system. Super Blue, baby. My 9 year old daughter had fun stomping on the brake pedal and pretending to drive.

Much easier than I thought with two people, but that Motive power bleeder looks awesome and makes a time consuming two person job into a short one person job.

 

Just bought power bleeder myself today to do slave and master cyl. didnt know about ole blue will go tommorow and change out. Thanks. Scott

 

Huh, you should do the brake pedal test first, before bleeding, to make sure it's not the Master cylinder and/or slave going!

I kinda have a slick spot under my pedals...it's pouring down rain right now, guess what I'M NOT GOING TO DO! Right, no driving tonight!

- Julie

 

ATE Type 200 Gold brake fluid is the same as Super Blue, just without the blue coloring. A neat trick when you flush the fluid is to alternate between the two each time you flush -- when you see the color starting to change at each bleed connection, you know you've pushed the old stuff out!

 

Alright i am likley bleeding my brakes this saturday depending on the weather. I have read alot of problems with the bleeder screws stripping and being a pain to get off...etc. Is it worth while to just replace all four screws?

 

Get a flare nut wrench for the bleeder screws if you don't have one already.
The screws are soft and are easy to round off without one.

 

I've always just used the box end of a 6 point wrench on mine, never use the open end of the wrench to break it loose. Yeah, they can round off easy enough.

And I do love that motive bleeder after using it just a couple of times!
I might have to try out that gold/blue alternating fluid changes, sounds pretty slick!

 

When bleeding your brake I was told to start with the futherst wheel from the resovoir and work your way to the closet wheel to the resovoir. So, your right rear passanger tire should be first, second should be your left rear then your front right and finally your driver front left. Reno

 

And don't forget to get the slave cylinder last! It took me about 20 minutes to do that one climbing under the car and getting the right size wrench and wiggling in and out a couple of times. Gets that last bit of the old stuff out. Since you're there, you might as well.

Love that power bleeder too.....took me under two hours from start to the finish of cleanup and with only 2 jackstands and one jack, I was up on one side, down, up on the other then down, etc.

 

Motive pressure bleeder is key as others have said! Makes the job 10 times easier and you dont have to worry about pushing the brake pedal down too far and ruining a master cylinder!

You want to start from the farthest bleeder from the master cylinder and work your way in.

If you need a hand let me know, its a quick job.