[DeTomaso] Brake Bleeding Sequence

[Peter Kovacs]

I saw the same show and wondered the same thing but assumed the old school way applied to the old master cyls that had a reservoir for front and rear (or one reservoir only). Supposedly some newer ones are staggered so if the system were to fail you'd still have one front brake and one rear either way...hence a different bleeding order.


Peter Kovacs
209 345-6708 
209 436-2000 fx

From: bob Radefeld <bob at radefeld.com>
To: DeTomaso Forum <detomaso at realbig.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 7:36 AM
Subject: [DeTomaso] Brake Bleeding Sequence

While watching an episode of Motorweek this past weekend their in-resident
mechanic was explaining the
procedure to follow to bleed your brakes. Normally the sequence I've always
heard calls for bleeding them
in the following order - right rear, left rear, right front, & left front.
However, this guy claimed the proper
procedure to be - start with EITHER of the rear calipers, then the
diagonally opposed front caliper, then
the other rear & lastly the diagonally opposite front. In demonstrating he
went in the sequence of LR, RF,
RR, & LF. Any of you guys ever run into this type of sequence before & if
so, why would this be a better
method than what I've always heard? Thanks for any comments!

Bob
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