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Such is car life.. it'll be fine. I was probably just doing something wrong.
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So I just called the indy cause i'm not exactly 100% comfortable taking this thing out on the road and they gave me some interesting tips:
I should expect to have to do this procedure multiple times in multiple ways after an almost complete gravity drain when replacing the lines - that's normal. So essentially I have yet to bleed things enough. The other thing he said was to use a vacuum pump at each corner without the power bleeder at least once to pull fluid down (obviously not letting the reservoir go dry). And finally, and most interestingly enough, he starts at the rear right wheel and goes clockwise because that's the order of the wheels that are furthest from the DSC pump, and not the MC. The MC goes to the DSC then to the wheels, so he does it in that order. All interesting. So i'm going to get a hand vacuum pump and will be doing this again! Hopefully my wife still loves me after all my time in the garage over the last week. What a time consuming hobby. |
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Dude, I tried the vacuum pump and it does not work! Granted, it was a Harbor Freight pump lol. But I did mine in the same order...passenger rear, driver side rear, passenger front than drivers side. Let me ask you...how much total fluid did you drain? I did a complete 2 bottles
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I only did like one liter. His order would be RR, LR, FL, FR - a bit different. Oh and by the way - fluid was running clean after doing a normal bleed without ISTA. Then I used ISTA and brown fluid came out! So ISTA definitely does a better job and get's to places a normal bleed can't. |
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Yea, among a few other things.
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Wow this company sucks, no one buy these brakes. Once they get set it'll be fine but fitment issues galore. Caliper rubbing on the hub like crazy, need to take some metal off the caliper to get clearance. You get what you pay for.
Also, on the brake bleed, it was a complete no go. I don't know what's going on. I chatted with another BMW Indy and he said any ista program you download of the internet is NOT what BMW uses and he claims it won't work to get a good flush. He has a pressurized machine and other software that will actually engage the DSC and ABS pumps properly and he'll get my pedal back. 105 bucks - I've spent that on dot 4 LV brake fluid already |
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Update:
After finally getting a bleed good enough to make it driveable I took it for a spin and found the issues mentioned above about the calipers grinding, however I got them working, but it wasn't without some major modifications lol... ya'll think I'm nuts but I was determined to make this work! See pics below. I still need to take this into the indy because my pedal is soft but it's 100% driveable now and safe. I would imagine that I could not bleed the brakes because I couldn't get proper travel of the calipers with them rubbing like they were... or maybe not. I definitely couldn't brake well with them like that. So to get them to work I took a grinder and took probably a 1/4 in off of the calipers and had to dig into the pads. It was nasty and I had to test fit about 30 times but finally got it to go. Once done grinding I re-did the paint and took it for a test drive and the thing brakes wonderfully (save the soft pedal I'm fixing today). But no rubbing, no squeaking and all is well. Now I'm going to contact the seller for a partial refund. What a mess, but hey, that's ebay car life. One day I'll learn. Here are some pics in chronological order: |
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Just to keep both threads updated in case you aren't following the other one...
OK, just picked it up, thing stops on a dime, I can actually lock them up fairly easy and no more squeaky brakes! Mech didn't see a problem at all with what I did, besides the fact I orders parts for my BMW off of ebay... but I digress... |
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Did you end up having to run ISTA?
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The mech did what ever he needed to do, 125 bucks. He has a machine and software.
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You'll probably be able to do longer hard braking without the typical swelling/bulging of the rubber line, and may expect to get better heat dissipation to reduce the chance of boiling the fluid. It is a more endurance-type mod than one for the feel considering BMW OEM lines aren't complete trash |
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i have the 6 ton jacks in the front and 2 ton jacks for the rear. so i should be good. but thanks for the heads up!
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