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    right having trouble wit the brakes on the car at the last drift pratice day they boiled and stopped working so tonight i went to bleed them started at the back left hand side and starting working my way all round
    now the problem i can get the htdralic hand brake working perfect but when i go to bleed the front brakes i can get a thing from them back brakes were bleed wit the foot brake and work perfect but front brakes cant be got working at all any one got any ideas as to wat to try


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    first off did ya change the fluid ya??not 100% on bleedin brakes but dont ya go diagonally??back left,front right,back right front left??and maybe try a proper bleeder,sometimes doing it with the pedal just aint good enough and run the risk of turning the seal in the master cylinder....


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    you dont bleed them diagonaly. you bleed them from furthest away from the master cylinder first. so rear left then rear right then front left then front right.


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    Quote Originally Posted by thegosson View Post
    you dont bleed them diagonaly. you bleed them from furthest away from the master cylinder first. so rear left then rear right then front left then front right.
    100% Right, you always bleed from the furthest away from the cylinder!


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    there is different methods but bleeding from the furthest works for me,
    maybe the caliper's are seized?


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    Your bleed nipple on the caliper could be blocked.. happens over time!

    Take it out completely, and put a bolt in the whole to stop all the fluid escaping then get an airline and blow into the top of the nipple.. Theres a tiny hole, very hard to see, and its usually below the threads, the opposite end to the big hole at the top basically and air should escape through that.

    If it doesnt then the nipple is blocked, might have to spray brake cleaner or something similar to help free it up and get a tiny drill bit that fits inside the large hole and try clean out the nipple with that also, then keep trying to get air to flow through from the top of the nipple to the bottom where the small hole is!


 

 

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