OK. Changing rotors pads is an easy job. Done it before to my old '94 GSR, and now I need to do it to me new '94 GSR, obviously w/ ABS. Anyway, I am not sure how I should go about bleeding the brakes after pughing the piston back into the caliper and installing the rotor/pads. Last time, my dad and I changed the brakes on my old teg and bled at the caliper, strangely my ABS modulator went a shortly after. Now I have read, and was told that I need to bleed at the modulator, but not sure how this is done/what is involved. Any comments/suggestions? I REALLY need to change my brakes, ASAP, but don't want to screw anything up. Also, I had the entire brake system flush and filled w/ Synpower DOT4 about 3 months ago, so all I should have to do is bleed.

 

Brake bleeding is not necessary when installing pads and rotors. You don't open up the system to do those things, so no need to bleed it. Now when you push the pistons back into the caliper, the fluid will rise in the MC and you might need to remove some fluid from the reservoir. Just keep an eye on it to make sure it doesn't overflow.

 

but should I keep the MC covered/capped and keep an eye on it, or should it be open?

 

open

 

and that isn't considered "opening" the system? why would one bleed the brakes then at all?

 

opening the system means opening the lines at the calipers or disconnecting the lines from the master cylinder. You don't bleed the brakes after removing the reservoir cap to check the fluid do you? No, because there is fluid in the reservoir, which keeps air from entering the master cylinder (air cannot pass through liquid, especially in a downward direction).

If you open the lines at the calipers, you will get air in the lines and you would have to bleed the lines. If you disconnect the lines at the master cylinder, you will get air in both the lines and the MC, and so you would have to bleed the lines AND bench bleed the MC.

But neither happens when changing brake pads and/or rotors, so don't worry about any of that.

 

I had just gotten that from reading this a while back:
http://www.team-integra.net/se...D=417

 

Well, trust me, it doesn't apply to replacing pads or rotors.

If at no time are any lines disconnected from anything, brake bleeding is not necessary.

 

k thanks much. everything needs replacing SO bad. it's an embarassment, scraping and metallic sounds all the time. not good. thanks again