[TR] DOT 5 Brake Fluif

Tom Note tom628 at verizon.net
Wed Mar 4 20:43:01 MST 2009


Aren't the front and rear brake circuits in the TR6 separate systems, 
isolated from each other with separate MC chambers? If so, I'd think you 
could start at either front or rear. Unless I'm missing something.

Tom


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <DLylis at aol.com>
To: <Brian.L.Jones at gsk.com>; <triumphs at autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 2:49 PM
Subject: Re: [TR] DOT 5 Brake Fluif


> In a message dated 3/4/2009 2:39:19 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> Brian.L.Jones at gsk.com writes:
>
> There  was some conflicting information about bleeding wheel sequence. 
> Many
> start  at the left rear, then right rear, left front, right front. There
> was, in  the archive, a Triumph service note that stated this was the
> correct  sequence for cars with drum brakes on the front. It also stated
> that cars  with discs on the front should be bled starting with the front
> left wheel,  but made no mention of the subsequent sequence. I cannot work
> out why  there would be a change in sequence with discs.
>
>
>
> I am not the best mechanic, but can hold my own.  All my life  (and it is
> getting longer every day) I have bled brakes on the principal that  you 
> bleed the
> longest run of brake line first and move toward the  shortest.  On a TR 
> 3 - 4
> that would be left rear, right rear, left front,  right front, as the
> junction of brake lines is on the right side of the  car.  On a TR6 that 
> would be
> right rear, left rear, right front, left  front.  I don't know why the 
> type of
> brakes would make a difference.   I am also aware that some think sequence 
> does
> not matter.
>
> David  Lylis
> 69 TR6 CC26160L
> 60 TR3A TS74461LO


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