flushing brake system

[ocbaud]

ok, so i'm gonna be doing some maintanece on my gt this weekend. i'll be replacing the rotors and pads, and i also want to flush the brake fluid out.

how should i go about doing this? rear pass, rear driver, front pass, front driver?
what about bleeding the master cylinder?
anything i should know about the abs stuff?

would prestone dot4 fluid work decent? how many bottles should i buy? 2, 3??

 

[bdcardinal]

i believe that teh actual full on factory method id the following:

Master Cylinder, Pass Rear, Drivers Rear, Pass Front, Drivers Front, Master Cylinder.

i use Valvoline SynPower ABS DOT 3/4. i woudl buy 2 bottles and make sure you fully flush the system. another good idea would be to install speed bleeders, they make the job a lot quicker.

 

[AdRock]

I did mine this past Saturday,

There's really no reason to bleed the master. Just start at the pass side rear and pump it all out until you've filled the master completely with fresh fluid.

And yeah, pass rear, drive rear, pass front, driver front is the corect order. I went through all four wheels twice to make sure I was getting clean fluid all the way around. I ended up using 2 of the big bottle of fluid to complete the job.