Kugaman1 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 15, 2017 4:28 pm
Ive been looking into this.....
Ive got a little 1 way valve tube to allow one man operation.
2 things Ive read are this:
1 - you are not meant to allow the brake pedal to go fully to the floor when pumping, so some people put a brick or something in the way to prevent this.
2 - you are meant to engage the clutch and put a block of wood in the way to prevent it lifting back up. This has something to do with the fact that the clutch uses the same fluid.....
Not sure how true the above are and would be interested in others thoughts....
Personally I dont like the one way valves and the pumping of the pedal for the reasons you mentioned in 1.
I have done fluid changes by using the gravity bleed method, so when it comes to changing the fluid in the Z4 I will either use gravity method and be patient or buy one of the fluid pumps like the sealey VS820
it was easier when you could get the Racing blue brake fluid but the blue dye wasn't Dot 4 compliant so they stopped making it, but having a different colour fluid made it so easy to see when you had the new fluid coming through
Dont know about the clutch as i don't have one
well actually I have two but i don't have a pedal