Casey.T Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 I am sitting here in wonder: Why have I always Paid good $$$'s for someone else to do my brakes. Granted most of the time in the past they were going crunch crunch crunch when I took them in:) Noticed that they were getting down there when I took off the front wheels to drill the holes for the SmittyBuilt side steps. It took about 10-15 min on each side. I was not worried about the rotor's due to the fact that the previous owner had the brakes done with rotors around 100k. The Meinike receipt was in the glove box :contract: and $12 for pads. (Did someone say CHEAPSKATE) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Precise1 Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 err, did you bleed them ? Yes disk brakes are super easy; it amazes me how many people will pay a couple hundred dollars... More $ than they know what to do with I guess... B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 Do you bleed them every time B? I've never bled my brakes when doing them, unless they feel soft after a short run around the block. I figure, why bleed if they still grab hard, and the pedal isn't soft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Precise1 Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 Yes, I do Simon. I guess it isn't necessary if you don't open the system anywhere, but it is also cheap end easy... Last weekend I replaced the brake fluid and bled the system without doing anything else. I'm kind of particular about brakes. B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k9sar Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 I never bleed mine unless they are mushy or if I pull the piston. Just compressing and replacing the pads shouldn't require you to do anything with the fluid other than make sure you don't overflow the resivior and top it off at the end after pumping the brakes a few times with the new pads in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 I'm the same way. Once every 2 years or so, I like to bleed the system completely, and put new fluid in, but I just open the reservoir when I compress the pistons on the caliper, and I've found that sometimes the system "back bleeds" itself during this process. I've never had a problem with soft brakes, so I guess I'm doing something right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Precise1 Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 I'm the same way. Once every 2 years or so, I like to bleed the system completely Well, unless you need brakes more often than every 2 years, it seems to me like you are bleeding and flushing the system more often then if you just did it every brake servicing... Either way is fine, and as long as the brakes work fine, thats all that matters. I just have a dendency to everything at once. I hadn't changed the brake fluid in the truck (had it 1 year now) and it was no longer clear, so it definitely needed it ! B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 That could be true. But it depends on what type of driving I've been doing, and definitely on pads. I've had some pads only last 30,000kms. I've had my current one's on now for 90,000kms. So It all depends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey.T Posted September 23, 2005 Author Share Posted September 23, 2005 I did lower the level in the resivior, when I completed the R2 on the pads I did pump up the system several times to make sure the new pads seated. Test run around the block went fine and the ABS worked too:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unccpathfinder Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 brakes are a good thing...i lost a master cylinder 1 day on my way to school...all i gotta say is im glad i have a manual...cuze i had 0 brakes...that sucked really really bad...drove it the next 4 days till i could get parts and time to fix it... my brakes are actually puzzling me...they'll get soft randomly and if its left over night or something the peddle is firm as if it were pumped while the car was off...im guessing i get condensation in the system when it starts cooling off b/c if i bleed them i'll get that nasty greyish water in fluid to bleed out...but its just got me puzzled cuze it ususally happens on season changes and im not loosing fluid anywhere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Pickles Posted September 24, 2005 Share Posted September 24, 2005 (edited) brakes are a good thing...i lost a master cylinder 1 day on my way to school...all i gotta say is im glad i have a manual...cuze i had 0 brakes...that sucked really really bad...drove it the next 4 days till i could get parts and time to fix it... my brakes are actually puzzling me...they'll get soft randomly and if its left over night or something the peddle is firm as if it were pumped while the car was off...im guessing i get condensation in the system when it starts cooling off b/c if i bleed them i'll get that nasty greyish water in fluid to bleed out...but its just got me puzzled cuze it ususally happens on season changes and im not loosing fluid anywhere Um, maybe you could change the fluid just in case to check. Contaminated brake fluid would be a bad thing. Edited September 24, 2005 by Mr. Pickles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denisb Posted September 24, 2005 Share Posted September 24, 2005 Could be bad master cylinder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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