Brake Flush DIY

[FrayAdjacent]

Flushing and bleeding are two different things... similar, but different.

With a set of speed bleeders, flushing the brake system should be relatively easy. Start on your passenger rear wheel, and pump until the reservoir gets low. Top it off, and repeat until the new fluid is coming out at the caliper (helps if you use a different color fluid).

I need to do that sometime this summer.


Actually a good idea is to open the reservoir, suck out the fluid in there and all the sediment, then top it up with new fluid before pumping any.

[RandallNeighbour]

Anyone know how to get that white plastic screen out of the top of the resovoior?

[blinkwatt]

Originally Posted by RandallNeighbour

Anyone know how to get that white plastic screen out of the top of the resovoior?

Yes I do. Get some pliers and pull it out. It's useless,it just catching objects from falling inside the tank,I have no clue why anything would even be near the region though.

[Tool Pants]

I do not remove the screen because sometimes you can break it when trying to get it out. Since I do not remove it I do not start by sucking the fluid out of the reservoir.

Instead I hook up an empty Motive, pump it up, and drain the reservoir down to the level sensor switch area by opening a RR bleed nipple. This is the same as sucking it out of the reservoir. Do not drain it so that it is empty or you can get air in the system.

Then remove the motive, fill it with fluid, hook it up, and bleed in the normal way. You start bleeding with the RR so that is why I drain the reservoir from the RR.