[V6-12v] Flushing brakes

[Clive Young]

Well All done with thanks to many people, especially Jon , Peter and Marc. A very straight forward procedure you can do on your own ( at least on my car, a 95 90S ). The manual recomends every 2 years replacing the fluid and it was so easy I don't see why not. Also this will help the bleed niples from seizing. A quick recap for those who have not tried it but are considering it . 

1.    remove reservoir cap and pry out filter screen
2.    suck out old fluid with a syringe to prevent you from pushing it all through the system.( i used a 20cc styringe but any will do ).
3.    diconnect feed to clutch ( clamp off )  and disconnect float switch from reservoir. 
4.    Pry up reservoir out of housing , ( I used a large slotted screw driver )
5.    Clean and dry reservoir. John recomended alcohol and compressed air but I just used gauze and a pair of hemostats, it did a great job and the reservoir looks like     
  new.
6.    replace reservoir, reconnect float and clutch line and fill with new fluid from sealed container ( mine had to be j1703 dot 4 standard fluid. Check your manual  )
7. Bleed brakes using preferred method until clean fluid comes through, start from the wheel farthest from the reservoir and work towards reservoir.
8. Bleed clutch. A bit of a pain , the bleed nipple is about 6" above the inboard CV joint on the driver side,fortunately my car is on axle stands right now so wasn't too hard.

Done.

Note:
    1.     lots of advice about the BOMB but I don't have one so I did not want to comment.
    2.    Wasn't gonna do the clutch but glad I did as some air and dirty fluid came out
    3.     WEAR EYE PROTECTION. fluid flicks around everywhere when using tygon or other tubing, better safe than sorry.   

Hope this helps someone         


Clive Young 
95 90S FWD 5SPD