Hi all, I just finished dropping the tranny and putting in my new clutch myself and am on a little roll here taking care of some stuff I've been meaning to do. Next up is replacement rebuilt Legend twin piston calipers, pads/rotors & some stainless lines I've had sitting around for a while now. Btw this is on a 4th gen '96 Prelude w/ ABS but I disconnected it at each wheel when I swapped to the 5 lug spindles. The ABS unit is still hooked up in the engine bay though. If that matters.

The rotors and pads are no deal, I'm not car stupid. Lol. Needed to know though, when I go to remove the old rubber lines and put in the stainless ones, is it best to jack up one corner (in specified bleeding order of course), remove the old line and install the stainless line, then bleed it, put the wheel back on, lower it, and move on to the next wheel well? That's what I normally do for regular bleeding, but seeing as stainless lines will be introducing a lot of air, will my normal method not work effectively? I don't want to make some mistake with so much air in the system that my brake master gets air in it, or prop valve runs dry. My brakes work great as it is. Just some maintenance and an upgrade.

Or perhaps I should have the whole car on jackstands, quickly replace all 4 stainless lines, then proceed in my bleeding, going around the car once in order, then again to be sure it's good?

Some searching hasn't turned up whether bleeding is any different with new lines than it normally would be with say a new caliper. Thanks for the help out!

 

Not sure it matters, but I would do one caliper at a time, vacuum bleed it, then when all four are done, pressure bleed the entire system per the factory manual. That should minimize the amount of air introduced into the system. Also, I would bench bleed the calipers before installing them.

 

My method to prevent excess air from entering the system:
-Install the new calipers first without pulling the line off the old calipers.
-Install the lines one corner at a time. Bleed that corner individually. You'll lose some fluid. Don't cry.
-Once all of them are installed, flush out the whole system normally.

 

Gotcha. So it would seem the most efficient way is to just raise the whole car on jackstands and do the lines then bleed it all.

I just wasn't sure whether it was a good idea to bleed the first corner before I'd replaced the other 3 lines. Don't wanna do a job twice haha. Thanks!