Hi ALL
Looking to bleed the brakes on my May 2004 GXL prado. As its got ABS, do I need to pull a fuse on this thing or do I just ignore it and bleed as per "normal" ? With ABS, do you bleed it with the engine running or leave the key off ?
Had a look at a bunch of different options to bleed the system....
1) Traditional 2 person method, one under the car and one on the pedal/fluid. One thing that always got me here is if there is a little corrosion in the master cylinder, by undoing the slave cyclinder you are going to push the seals into the area in the master where the piston never goes which can potentially damage the seals....I remember dad in his old 67 falcon always had this issue, I was the poor bastard on the pedal and topping up the cylinder :-)
2) One way valve on the slave...Those supercheap auto things any good ? It looks like it is as per above except you don't need monkey under the car all the time.
3) Some sort of pressure bleeder that screws onto the master cylinder, not sure where you get those from.
I'd prefer to do this myself and dick about till its perfect...
Appreciate any "experiences" :-)
Pete
Looking to bleed the brakes on my May 2004 GXL prado. As its got ABS, do I need to pull a fuse on this thing or do I just ignore it and bleed as per "normal" ? With ABS, do you bleed it with the engine running or leave the key off ?
Had a look at a bunch of different options to bleed the system....
1) Traditional 2 person method, one under the car and one on the pedal/fluid. One thing that always got me here is if there is a little corrosion in the master cylinder, by undoing the slave cyclinder you are going to push the seals into the area in the master where the piston never goes which can potentially damage the seals....I remember dad in his old 67 falcon always had this issue, I was the poor bastard on the pedal and topping up the cylinder :-)
2) One way valve on the slave...Those supercheap auto things any good ? It looks like it is as per above except you don't need monkey under the car all the time.
3) Some sort of pressure bleeder that screws onto the master cylinder, not sure where you get those from.
I'd prefer to do this myself and dick about till its perfect...
Appreciate any "experiences" :-)
Pete
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