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Old 10-20-2003, 04:49 PM
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Re: Brake Bleeding a Spider
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Originally posted by Gubi

Here's my question...the service manual says to do both right brakes at the same time, and then both left brakes. Strikes me as a bit odd, as the way I've always seen it done is to start with the rear right, then the rear left, then front right, then front left...working from the farthest to the nearest.
Think in terms of a TANDEM system. In a system that's split front to rear, the right rear is further from the M/C for the rear circuit and the right front is further for the front circuit. So you are, in effect, going from farthest to nearest.
All I can think of for the service manual to say bleed both rights at the same time and then both lefts is so they could lower the mechanics flat-rate time.
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