I'm about to embark on what I'm sure will be a great adventure.
I am going to replace the bearings, calipers, rotors and brake pads on all 4 wheels on my V8 RX7.
Now for the question...
Will I be ok by replacing and bleeding one corner at a time? There are no leaks now and I'd have a really hard time getting the whole car up in the air to bleed all 4 at one time.
I usually do all the work then bleed. If you don't want to jack the car up twice, do one end at a time then bleed one end at a time. You are using jack stands, right? And using jack stands only in pairs, right? (Just one jack stand = recipe for disaster!)
So it would go like: Jack up rear of car, put stands on both sides of rear. Replace rear bearings, calipers, rotors, pads. Bleed rear brakes, starting with longest circuit. (usually passenger side.) Repeat for front.
and remember, when bleeding new calipers it's a good idea to lightly tap them with a hammer to make sure you dislodge any possible little bubbles that hang onto the walls of the bores.
I do whatever I can to keep from losing fluid at the master cylinder, just because its so much easier to get the pedal back. If you do one wheel at a time, top up and bleed each in sequence, you can probably just gravity bleed and be done.
what streetwise said..... honestly most of the time even when doing a complete system i just gravity bleed ya i waste more fluid and time but it give me time to sit back and have a few margahrita's. just get clear tubing that fits tight over the bleeders... hook up to bleeder crack it open fill resevoir and let it bleed untill no more bubble in the tubing. close the bleeder and move onto the next one
Bleead out the lines before you swap calipers that way you don't push chunks in to the new calipers... So many of us forget this...
ya but question is why are there chunks and nasty stuff to begin with... unless u got the car like that.....
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