• bleeding brakes

Posted: **30 Jun 2008 02:58 am**

hey everyone,

i have a set of new disk, pads that i need to put on my 360 urgently lol

but i am unsure of the order in which i have to bleed the brakes when i put new fluid in.....

can anyone help??

cheers

Posted: **30 Jun 2008 08:23 am**

generally speaking you bleed the corner which is furthest (in terms of pipe length) from the master cylinder first and work towards it.

Posted: **30 Jun 2008 11:16 am**

tru... makes sense lol

cheers

Posted: **10 Jul 2008 04:16 am**

Dunno 'bout a 360, but 240s are a pain in the arse to bleed. There is a specific sequence of the 8 bleed nipples and if you do it wrong you go around in circles for hours until you get all of the air out.

Posted: **12 Jul 2008 07:53 pm**

Nah, 300s are easier than 200s, cos they don't have loads of bleed nipples. You're right on the 200s you have to go round in the right order otherwise you end up chasing the air round

On a 300 there is only 1 rear bleed nipple, you bleed the rear brakes first, and then you do the furthest front brake (if its RHD then its left brake) and then the nearest one.

Posted: **13 Jul 2008 11:24 pm**

yer i knew bout the 240 brake sequence hence asking about the 360 as i dont yet have a haynes manual for it lol.

but i worked it all out now anyways
thanks for the help guys!

Posted: **14 Jul 2008 02:42 am**

Man, I love using 240 brakes, but I ****ing hate fixing them!!!!!

Posted: **14 Jul 2008 06:49 am**

same man aye lol

on that note anyone in aus want to buy a 240??? lol

ive one for sale in on ebay oz

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Volvo-240-GL-2-3 ... dZViewItem

Posted: **15 Jul 2008 02:23 am**

Dude, if you were in Tassie I would probably buy it off you ( and get my balls cut off for bringing another car home

) but I ain't gonna go to QLD for a 240.......

Posted: **15 Jul 2008 08:59 am**

Living over here in tiny little old England (I can reach Cornwall without getting out of my computer chair), it's easy to forget how absolutely, brain-bendingly mahooooo000oosive Australia is.
Here it's easy to call someone a pansy for not being willing to travel to buy a car, but Oz is bigger than the whole US.

Posted: **16 Jul 2008 03:58 am**

From where I am to where he is would be about a 4 hour drive to the overnight ferry, then a 10 hour freeway drive to Sydney, then another 1000 km or so to where he is.
So, it would take around 3 (long) days to get there, and the same to get back, not to mention over 1500 miles worth of petrol each way.........