I was glancing in a friend's 4th gen Hayne's manual (93-01 actually) and in the section on bleeding brakes I was surprised at the order the manual said to do them in. I always started fartherest away from the master cylinder and moved closer to it (RR, LR, RF, LF). But the Hayne's said begin on the right rear, then left front, left rear, and end with the right front.

Why did the Hayne's go against what I've always heard?

 

no comments on the brake bleeding order

 

No one likes you...

 

I know

 

I did mine a while back and I was doing them in order from furthest away from master cylinder, but then I realized that I should be doing it furthest from the ABS pump which is behind the passenger side headlight. So it would be LR RR LF RF if you have ABS ,I believe.

 

Ok, how about if you don't have abs, then what would you have done?

 

If not abs then I guess I would go with furthest from the master cylinder like you said unless the lines ran in such a way as making the RR not the furthest away. I would think that the lines would run the shortest length possible to each caliper so I would have done what you did, but I could be wrong.

 

rr to lf and lr to rf is diagonal split. The brake line are connected diagonally.

rr to lr and rf to lf is dual split.
The brake lines are connected to each other horizontally.

I forgot whick one we have for our max.

 

*cough* stickies *cough*

 

http://www.cybrrpartspro.com/Chilton...61CH09_10.HTML

If I had a Chilton's I guess I would have known

 

i had to do this recently on my Max (ABS equipped)...the bleeding order suggested in the Chilton was rear left, front right, rear right, front left...ONLY for ABS.

The manual had a different section for bleeding an ABS equipped maxima and non ABS maxima...

for non-ABS...it didnt show no particular sequence.

 

LR is farthest from master cylinder, brake system is diagonal for safety reasons and LF is the diagonal half of LR. Likewise RR is the next farthest from the master cylinder and RF is the diagonal half of LR. From a purist point of view this would provide least air in lines but am not sure how much better it is than LR, RR, RF and LF!