Brake bleeding. daft question.

[pesty]

Altough my car has full service history I can see nothing in the receipts about changing teh brake fluid.

The brakes altough work fine dont have a good feel. I was thinking about puting fresh fluid in.

Now the daft question. My wheels have realy big gaps in them. so big that I gave full accces to teh bleed nipples.

Is there any reason why I cant save myself a lot of time and hassle jacking up and removing the wheels. Instead just do it through the gap? I cant see a reason why not too. it just seems to easy to be true.


told you it ws daft.

[GreenV8S]

No reason at all, although you might find that access through the wheel is not as easy as it appears. There's a big difference between being able to see something, and being able to work on it easily.

[Pesty]

Cheers green,

I can easily get a spanner on it. its right at the top of the caliper on the side exactly where the hole in the alloy is(if its lined up )

thinking about it there would only be one complication and that is if there are 2 nipple one for each side of teh caliper. Mighttake one wheel off just in case then do teh rest in situ

[saxo-stew]

seeing as you should do the back first then the front,it would make it alot easier to just remove the wheels.

[warmfuzzies]

Don't forget the clutch as this rides on the braking system of a 964


kevin

[pesty]

hi warm.

Not just the clucth on mine.

There is a low pressure pump, a high pressure pump and also the 4wd somthing or other I have to bleed before I do the brakes.

read Adrians peice on the subject and its left me a little confused. But then I did read teh book in a day all that info has left my head spinning.
will look again after christmas.

the clutch fluid does come from the same resovoir not sure if I have to bleed that as well.

I need to use a pressure bleeder because pressing the brake peddle with the engine off de pressureises the system.
damn complicated this car is

>> Edited by pesty on Thursday 23 December 12:00