Sri brake bleeding

[no2lurch]

As my mot picked up that my front disks and pads need replacing I thought it might be a good idea to bleed the brakes too and maybe even replace the fluid. However as the brakes and clutch share a fluid reservoir, is this an easy job? Can I just bleed all 4 corners of the brakes till new fluid comes through? Will this affect the clutch?

[steve_earwig]

Just don't touch the clutch when the fluid's below the level of its feed pipe. I s'pose ideally you should bleed the clutch hydraulics while you're at it but it's not as crucial as the brakes and, I gather, a pain in the arse to do.

Get an Eezibleed if you haven't already, so much easier and more reliable than anything else.

Haynes bleedin' sequence:
r/h front
l/h front
r/h rear
l/h rear.

[mjb]

The clutch isn't hard to bleed, you just need a one-way brake bleeding valve (£5 from Halfords, don't use the pressurised eezibleed for this!), 7 and 9mm spanners (from memory) and make sure you use both so you don't transfer any force to the plastic bit when undoing the bleed nipple. Getting the front of the car as high off the ground as you can is ESSENTIAL though. Only do a couple of strokes at a time before refilling the reservoir, and when you refill it, pull the front end of it up hard to get the stuck air out...

You'll need to pull the air filter box out first and make sure you have a stable place to collect the expelled fluid.

If you're running 10 year old fluid in there, bleeding the clutch should make it feel a lot better...