I've been looking around and there are so many different perspectives about this. I am going to put stainless lines at the calipers while I'm at it so the car will be off the ground completely.
Do I really need to bench bleed the master before I put it on?
I accidentally turned the ignition key to run position the other night while changing out interior pieces. What impact might that have had on the ABS pump since there was no master cylinder?

Oh, it's a 90 coupe btw.

yes. it will speed up the bleeding process by a ton.

I can't answer about the abs pump.

You can get a speed bleeding kit at the parts store cheap, do it on the bench.

The key/ignition thing shouldn't affect the ABS at all, it doesn't cycle until traveling about 4 mph.

Matthew

Ok, I tried Autozone and O'Reilly auto parts...neither of them had the kit to bleed the master off the car. It was the same story at both places. "It usually comes with the new master cylinder"

I don't know what to do other than try bleeding it on the car. Is that even possible with vacuum bleeding?

Those kits are fittings and tubing that takes the fluid from the line connection and dumps it back into the m/c reservoir.

You could just put a lot of paper towels at the holes and slowly push the m/c piston(s) in and slowly release them. Do this a bunch of times and make sure the reservoir's full enough that the small holes are covered with brake fluid.

Ok. I got something rigged up but I can't seem to get a full flow of fluid from the rear. Is that normal?

You can get the bench bleeder kit at the auto parts store. Just go to the autozone.com or advanceautoparts.com and look up the brake bleeder kit. You want the metric kit.

It is best to bench bleed the master before you put it on as that gets all the air out. I've read some air can get stuck in the master if you don't bench bleed it first. They say to bench bleed the master on a level surface.

I got a couple short pieces of brake line and bent them in an arc so they fed back up into the resevoirs. If one of the lines is not flowing as much as the other, could it be normal pressure difference between the front and rear?

I used the vinyl tubing that came with my vacuum pump and punched holes in the plastic caps Cardone installed in my master and used that as a bench bleeding setup.

I'm actually about to go out in the garage and finish bleeding the lines.

I finally started to put the rest of the stainless lines on the calipers and realized that I had put the rears on the front all those months ago so I created more work for myself... go me!

Stupid Goodridge lines...left rear rubs the tire. I zip-tied it up and away but now it makes an annoying noise when the suspension compresses. I'll have to fix that another night.

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