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Old 01-30-2025, 11:05 PM
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Follow all factory recommended procedures.

In addition I'd start soaking every brake connection with penetrating oil several times in advance of doing the work. don't allow the penetrating oil to stay on rubber components. Soak the fittings at the master cylinder (MC), at the hose to steel line connection at the wheels and the bleeder screws at each wheel. Use line/tubing wrenches on the tubing nuts. IIRC, they are 11mm and the bleeder screws are 9mm. Use six point tools to prevent rounding the hex.

Use new unopened fluid, two quarts will be plenty.

Bench bleeding the MC before installation saves a ton of bleeding.

I use a Motive pressure bleeder and am satisfied with its performance.

If the brake hoses are old this is a good time to change them.

Before putting fluid in the MC look at the reservoir to see and understand the inner construction and the dam between the front and rear sections. It is common for bleeding problems especially on the rear brakes when insufficient fluid is in the reservoir, specifically not enough to go over the dam and fill both sections. Make sure both sections have fluid in them continually whilst bleeding the system.
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