Okay, so i'm finally resuming my dodge caravan brake repair starting with the wheel cylinders, except that means i'll have to bleed it afterwards.
I looked up and saw people talking about 'gravity bleeding' where you jack up the front higher than the rears (do you jack anything if bleeding the fronts??) and just open the bleed screws for awhile while constantly topping off the master cyl with more fluid. They say by the time you put a pint through one brake you should be done.
Sounds good to me! I dont think this van has had brake fluid changed in over a decade anyway (even though it's mostly sat) so kills two birds with one stone. Is this dumb, or should I be doing it differently, or do you have any other comments about thsi process though?
What kind of test would you recommend (on a deserted road obviously, there's literally a long gravel unused road just off my street for miles) to verify whether the brakes are properly bled afterwards? Or just as long as the brake pedal feels hard afterwards it should be fine?
I'd like to this over the building a one man brake bleeder stuff esp when normally in the future I should have a 2nd person to help again. (I actualy had one I built before for a different car, it's buried somewhere in the garage, i'd have to remodify it for the dodge to fit the cap, and after I used it I realized I never solved the problem of how do I clean out the old likely water-logged fluid by now when it's got many feet of hose on it to begin with still lined with the old fluid)
I looked up and saw people talking about 'gravity bleeding' where you jack up the front higher than the rears (do you jack anything if bleeding the fronts??) and just open the bleed screws for awhile while constantly topping off the master cyl with more fluid. They say by the time you put a pint through one brake you should be done.
Sounds good to me! I dont think this van has had brake fluid changed in over a decade anyway (even though it's mostly sat) so kills two birds with one stone. Is this dumb, or should I be doing it differently, or do you have any other comments about thsi process though?
What kind of test would you recommend (on a deserted road obviously, there's literally a long gravel unused road just off my street for miles) to verify whether the brakes are properly bled afterwards? Or just as long as the brake pedal feels hard afterwards it should be fine?
I'd like to this over the building a one man brake bleeder stuff esp when normally in the future I should have a 2nd person to help again. (I actualy had one I built before for a different car, it's buried somewhere in the garage, i'd have to remodify it for the dodge to fit the cap, and after I used it I realized I never solved the problem of how do I clean out the old likely water-logged fluid by now when it's got many feet of hose on it to begin with still lined with the old fluid)