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Old May 7, 2012 | 07:39 PM
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Air in brake line

I was upgrading all of my brakes to the yellow ceramic ones. Everything was ok until the last one. I was bleeding the fluids and kept an eye on the fluid level. When I was pumping the brake pedal, it felt different. So i stopped and look at the fluid level. There was still fluid in there. Well I took a flashlight to it and noticed that the front half had fluids and the back half of the reservoir was empty.
So my question is, do i have to start all over again or just do the front ones since they are closes.

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Old May 7, 2012 | 10:04 PM
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I was upgrading all of my brakes to the yellow ceramic ones. Everything was ok until the last one. I was bleeding the fluids and kept an eye on the fluid level. When I was pumping the brake pedal, it felt different. So i stopped and look at the fluid level. There was still fluid in there. Well I took a flashlight to it and noticed that the front half had fluids and the back half of the reservoir was empty.
So my question is, do i have to start all over again or just do the front ones since they are closes.

Thanks.
The front half of the brake fluid reservoir is for the back brakes, the rear portion is for the front. They are separate for redundancy I believe so that if you get a leak in a brake line somewhere you don't loose all the fluid. I don't believe you need to rebleed the whole system but not 100%.
 
Old May 8, 2012 | 04:53 AM
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YES, You do need to bleed the whole system if you want to be sure that you have no air in the lines.

Air in the lines is bad.
 
Old May 8, 2012 | 06:12 AM
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Agreed. Best to do them again.
Get a Motiv Powerbleeder and you won't have to pump any pedals
They're fantastic. (~70$)
 
Old May 8, 2012 | 11:01 AM
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Ordered the Motive Powerbleeder last night and another bottle of Motul, should be here today. I have the speedbleeder but will go back to the regular ones. Will do all four corners again.
 
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