Flushing Brakes

[quaterhorse]

Well, started flushing my brakes this morning. Being the only person home all day, I have to use the gravity method. First removed all fluid from resivoir. It was as black as the coffee I was drinking! It was sad looking. Now have the hose hook up to bleeder and opened the bleeder. My question is roughly how long should it take to do each wheel? I know this is a long process.

Thanks,

Keith


PS 34 ft MH

[garym114]

Time varies because of brake line size and elevation difference between master cylinder and caliper. Just let it drain until it looks better than your coffee.
Keep master cylinder reservoir full. If you let it go dry you have sucked air into the system.

[iRV4FUN]

QH, Some have used a turkey baster to empty their fluid reservoir and re-loading with fresh fluid prior to a flush procedure. At some point you’ll see the coffee color go to golden. I’m guessing that you will really notice a difference given your old fluid color.

Also, as I'm sure you know, start with the furthest cylinder (RR in my case) and work forward in bleeding process. Believe it or not, I had a Ford Truck repair shop hand me the keys with a peddle that went to the floor board all because they didn't know the order of bleeding and left copious amounts of air in my brake lines.

[mfire1339]

I used clear tubing to watch color and would guess 15-20 minutes to see clear fluid at first wheel right rear.

Mike

[quaterhorse]

Will I need to go through and bleed all calipers when finished? I had taken all calipers off before this to clean and inspect.

[woodyk]

Buy yourself some speed bleeders and you can complete the entire job in 1 hour or less. The part number is SB71624 When I bought mine from Speed Bleeder Products, Inc in 2009 --they were $7 apiece--An American product from Newark, Ill--Their phone number is 888-879-7016 .

WoodyK

[iRV4FUN]

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Originally Posted by woodyk ... The part number is SB71624 When I bought mine from Speed Bleeder Products, Inc in 2009... WoodyK

Do you own a P32 (year)?

Guess I’d get em if I knew they’d fit my P32.

[Indy Itasca]

Quote:

Originally Posted by iRV4FUN Do you own a P32 (year)? Guess I’d get em if I knew they’d fit my P32.

contact Dale at Oemy's Web Site -

he sells them and will know if they fit.

[DriVer]

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Originally Posted by iRV4FUN Guess I’d get em if I knew they’d fit my P32.

Can someone help me out here but I don't think that they have P-Series speed bleeders. I know Oemy has 20,21 & 22 W-Series.

[iRV4FUN]

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Originally Posted by DriVer Can someone help me out here but I don't think that they have P-Series speed bleeders. I know Oemy has 20,21 & 22 W-Series.

A few months ago Oemy said he would like to match up some P32's and hadn't gotten to that project yet. Our friend Woodyk may or may not have a P32. So the verdict is still out for us P32'ers. I'd still like to get a four pack!

All I know is that if a P32'er was looking for some speed bleeders the iRV2 forum would be about your only hope for the part number.

[woodyk]

I have a W22 chasis--What is your caliper casting number?? give it to Omey and he can tell you what speed bleeder you need. If your Caliper casting number is the new caliper (4153269)for the safety recall then the SB71624 speed bleeder will fit it.

Woodyk

[edgray]

FWIW, the Bosch 66mm twin piston calipers used by WCC on the W-20 thru W-22 chassis ALL have casting # 4153269 on them. The "new" calipers provide by the recall did NOT change the casting number, however the "new" calipers did get a date code STAMPED into them, which is how you tell which version you have. Apparently SB # 71624 was developed for these particular Bosch calipers (see OEMY's website for more details) and that SB part # does NOT fit other calipers, such as were used on the P32 chassis. Ed