Brake Bleeding Order

Hey,

Hope everone is well.

I'm in bit of dilimier car on stands at moment. The car involved is Citreon C3 1.4 HDI 2011.

I was carrying out maintenance on the rear drum breaks, they were squeaking and i had to make adjustment for the handbreak and passager side rear break drum was really tight.

While cleaning the drum break internals with break cleaner, i though i would check the dust cover for the wheel cyclinder for leaks, the outside area was dry and generally clean. At this point I took the shows off, I used a flat screwdriver to prei the rubber dust cover off, but the dust cover kind of Come out and I lost fluid. Does that tell me that there was leak already, I checked the other side and I could see the under the rubber dust was wet.

What i was wondering after replacing the cyclinder would i need to bleed just that brake drum or both rear sides or all 4 wheels? Cheers

Also would anybody know the bleeing order?

I would be using the vizibleed brake & clutch bleeder is this okay?

Thankyou very much.

Hi

Just bleed the wheel you worked on.

Ideally you would change both sides so they will always have the same level.of wear.

Then you would bleed both back wheels.

No need to bleed the fronts unless you work on the fronts.

EZBleed is good,

Two man bleeding is good if you have two people.


Bleeding order: closest to the master cylinder first, then work way to the furthest away last. But as I mentioned, you only need to do the wheels you worked on.

cheers mate, the only thing I'm changing is the wheel cyclinder on the drive side, the other side looks good no leaks or wetness within the dust cover plus can't afford to replace that just yet.

Break shoes and drums look in top top condition.

In regards to the bleeding order, ive read and watched some videos, where generally they say to bleed from the furthest bleed valve nipple from the master brake cyclinder and if your car is equipped with ABS that you use that to reference the furthest point to the bleeding valve nipper is that not the case with Citren c3?

If you are only changing one wheel cylinder, it won't matter which order they are bled in because there is only one.

Haynes Manual likes the order I suggested and I found it works well on the C3. But it's not a case of it not working, but just to get it completed in the least amount of time.

ABS won't be an issue if you are only doing the wheel cylinder and not loosing very much fluid in the process.

Thanks alot mate, really appreciate the sound advise, hopefully should have the car in the road tomorrow. By any chance is thier a link or article on fuel filiter service for my model?