i had to replace my front left caliper whats the easiest way to bleed it out just open the 10 mm bleeder and pump the gas until it gets pressure than loosen and do it again?

 

you need a sidekick to press the pedal, always start from the brake furthest away from the master cylinder basically - RR then LR, then FR then FL.

 

Like rtype11 said, you'll need a helper and the bleeding sequence.

DON'T just open the bleeder and pump the brakes. Instead, at each wheel...

Open the bleeder
Apply the brakes and hold
Close the bleeder
Release the brakes

Repeat until there are no air bubbles in the fluid that's coming out of the bleeder. Then, move on to the next wheel.

 

As stated above, make sure you bleed the brakes starting with the corner farthest from the master cylinder and work closer.

To actually bleed the brakes I would suggest changing the sequence slightly to:
pump the brake pedal several times and hold down
then open the bleeder screw slightly to let fluid and air bubbles out
then close the bleeder
release brake pedal
repeat until all air bubbles are gone and move to the next corner.

 

find out what the correct sequence to bleed your brakes and get yourself a vaccuum gun/self bleeder to bleed keep an eye on the master cylinder to make sure there is fluid you dont need to pump that just creates millions of tiny little buble tha take more time to bleed the poo pooe out

 

You need about 20" of clear tubing to fit over bleader screw and a 20oz sprite bottle and clean brake fluid. (See photo for help)



-Attach the hose to the bleader screw
-Put about 1/2 of clean fluid into sprite bottle
-Place other hose in bottle with end below fluid level
-Place bottle so fluid travels upward first and down into bottle
-Open bleader screw a bit, Open brake fluid resevoir and fill to top
-Pump brake pedel 3-4 times, watch for fluid to flow thru hose into bottle
-Refill reservior with fresh clean fluid



-Repeat pumping and filling till clean clear brake fluid come thru hose with out air bubbles, tighten bleader screw remove hose, check resevoir level or go onto next wheel.

I think you should start at the wheel farthest from the brake booster/resevior; RR, RL, FR and then FL. Becarefull about getting brake fluid on your paint, it can do major damage to it.

Hope this helps you out.


[Modified by Civic242, 11:04 PM 1/24/2002]

 

Why are you going to pump the gas to bleed the brakes? Pump up the brake pedal and hold it down while someone opens the bleeder, then while pedal is still down tighten bleeder. Proper bleeding sequence is something like -RR, LF, LR, RF.

 

quick and cheap way to make a one man bleeder is to go to a junkyard and bust open some vaccum control boxes. Yank all those little plastic check valves out. Grab a whole bunch, because the brake fluid will wear them out. Do a little bit of testing to find out which end of the valve is which and connect the correct end to a piece of vaccum hose and the other end of the hose to the bleed screw. Voila, free one man bleeders. Also a little trick to keep the MC resivour (sp?) full is to use a fresh bottle of brake fluid and quickly flip it upside down with the neck under the level of fluid in the cylinder. It will act like a water cooler and not overflow. If you spill any, just use a lot of water and douse all the fluid off.