Bleeding the brakes sequence

[Robocab]

Hi all I've gotta bleed my brakes tomorrow but so I've been told the manual says to bleed the front brakes 1St. Is this a Haynes are you paying attention joke as I've always bled the rear 1St?????????????

[Tech1e]

If you are just doing a fluid change technically is makes very little difference. But is you start from the furthest away from the MC and work your way forward you won't go far wrong.

[Robocab]

I've been changing the rear calipers as they'd only rewind with a 2 ft set of stillsons & then were binding on. So I just changed them. But I've got air in the lines unfortunately

[TK699]

Had the same issue and just had to bleed the rears.

I did use a brake pipe clamp to stop the air getting in.

Depends if you used a clap or not I'd say, but best practice is to bleed all of them.

[Tech1e]

You shouldn't really be clamping brake pipes.

However providing the fluid level hasn't dropped dramatically the only air will be in the new caliper. A straight forward bleed on the two rears will be fine.

[TsvRS]

I've been changing the rear calipers as they'd only rewind with a 2 ft set of stillsons & then were binding on. So I just changed them. But I've got air in the lines unfortunately

Did you find somewhere that sells the calipers at a reasonable price? Mine are pretty shot and should really be replaced too.

[Robocab]

I just bought 2 from a yard I use £20 each

[Cryonut]

Some words of wisdom in the link below.

http://workshop-manuals.com/skoda/octavia-mk2/brake_systems/brakes_hydraulics_regulator_servo/bleeding_brake_system/bleeding_the_brake_system_of_air_with_the_brake_filling_and_bleeding_device/