I'm going to be bleeding my brakes tomorrow. Should I get my car up on four jacks or can I just jack up the rear, do the passenger rear, put the tire back on, lower it. Jack up the front, do the driver front, bleed it, put the tire back on, lower it. Jack up the rear driver, etc etc.

Or should I have it jacked up on four jacks?

 

since youre supposed to repeat the bleeding process a few times, its probably less work overall to just have it on jackstands rather than takes wheels on and off

 

Have it jacked on all four corners. You go in a certain order. The order is:

Passenger Rear
Driver Front
Driver Rear
Passenger Front

Keep doing that order like a million times.

 

I thought once each side would be enough?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Noct &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I thought once each side would be enough?</TD></TR></TABLE>No sir.

Lemme ask you, is there fluid in your MC, or is your entire system empty?

When I swap MC's, and my system is completely empty, I go through two bottles. Big bottles.

 

It's full. I haven't taken all the fluid out yet. I'm going to do it tomorrow with a turkey basin.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Noct &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">It's full. I haven't taken all the fluid out yet. I'm going to do it tomorrow with a turkey basin.</TD></TR></TABLE>So you're swapping MC's? You don't need to scoop up your old fluid, just bleed it alot and it'll run through the entire system and come out at the bleeder valves. IMO that's the best way, it ensures no air gets into the lines from the MC.

 

No, I'm just bleeding my brakes because I disconnect the brake line to my rear calipers to change my brake pads.

 

Ok, but still, just bleed out your old fluid by bleeding the brakes and continuously adding in new fluid to the MC to keep it above the Low line.