2000drz400e
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My first post here. My buddy owns an FL5 civic and we did a dum dum and ran the reservoir too low while bleeding the brakes and introduced air into the system. We read none of the typical procedure for this vehicle and just bleed the front and rear driver corners then front and rear passenger corners. We got air into the system doing the driver rear corner. We were pretty worried but were able to get an OK pedal feel after repeated pumping and bleeding with the normal 2 person method where you pump the pedal a few times and crack the bleeder.
But we want to go over the system again and make sure it's actually right, my friend is saying the pedal still feels not quite as firm as it did before we touched it. SMH....
I've been doing a lot of googling and finding some conflicting information, is it possible with this car to do an automated ABS bleed procedure with the right scan tool? Would the Foxwell NT630plus work for this? I'm talking about the procedure where you run a wizard on teh scan tool, it instructs you to go to each corner and crack a bleeder, then the ABS system pumps brake fluid out of that corner for you without you having to touch the brake pedal.
From what I'm reading and posts by @PointByPatrol the official Honda service manual procedure goes like this:
-Bleed with pressurebleeder, vacuum bleeder, or 2 person method, doesn't matter which
-Bleed in this order: Driver Front, Passenger Front, Passenger Rear, Driver Rear
-Cycle the Parking brake 5 times
-Bleed the passenger Rear and driver Rear again
I of course do not have this service manual... Does anybody have screenshots or something of this procedure from the service manual they could share?
But I can't find any mention anywhere of someone bothering with the ABS system. Or any posts of people dumb enough to run the reservoir empty like we did...
Doesn't this leave old fluid in the ABS pump/accumulator/solenoids or something like that? Or does the brake fluid flush with the above method push fluid through these components?
I can't help but think in our case we need to do something with the ABS system since we ran the reservoir low and introduced air through the top of the system. Any guidance would be appreciated. Thanks!
My first post here. My buddy owns an FL5 civic and we did a dum dum and ran the reservoir too low while bleeding the brakes and introduced air into the system. We read none of the typical procedure for this vehicle and just bleed the front and rear driver corners then front and rear passenger corners. We got air into the system doing the driver rear corner. We were pretty worried but were able to get an OK pedal feel after repeated pumping and bleeding with the normal 2 person method where you pump the pedal a few times and crack the bleeder.
But we want to go over the system again and make sure it's actually right, my friend is saying the pedal still feels not quite as firm as it did before we touched it. SMH....
I've been doing a lot of googling and finding some conflicting information, is it possible with this car to do an automated ABS bleed procedure with the right scan tool? Would the Foxwell NT630plus work for this? I'm talking about the procedure where you run a wizard on teh scan tool, it instructs you to go to each corner and crack a bleeder, then the ABS system pumps brake fluid out of that corner for you without you having to touch the brake pedal.
From what I'm reading and posts by @PointByPatrol the official Honda service manual procedure goes like this:
-Bleed with pressurebleeder, vacuum bleeder, or 2 person method, doesn't matter which
-Bleed in this order: Driver Front, Passenger Front, Passenger Rear, Driver Rear
-Cycle the Parking brake 5 times
-Bleed the passenger Rear and driver Rear again
I of course do not have this service manual... Does anybody have screenshots or something of this procedure from the service manual they could share?
But I can't find any mention anywhere of someone bothering with the ABS system. Or any posts of people dumb enough to run the reservoir empty like we did...
Doesn't this leave old fluid in the ABS pump/accumulator/solenoids or something like that? Or does the brake fluid flush with the above method push fluid through these components?
I can't help but think in our case we need to do something with the ABS system since we ran the reservoir low and introduced air through the top of the system. Any guidance would be appreciated. Thanks!
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