D2 Brake Bleeding

[Divster]

There is some spongyness in the brakes on my D2 (there was when I bought it, I've just got round to sorting it). Having checked all of the unions/ calipers/ master cylinder for leaks and weeps I went to bleed the brakes using my eezi bleed. Unfortunately none of the eezi bleed caps fit the fluid reservoir. I need to get an adaptor/ alternative pressure bleeding kit. Has anyone got any recommendations???

Is there also anything else I need to bear in mind when bleeding a D2 (never done a car with ABS before)

[BogMonster]

You can't do a full brake bleed without a T4/Autologic etc.

You can bleed just the lines I think (for example if you have had to change a caliper), but if there is air in the ABS modulator the only way to bleed it is use the purging procedure which you can run from the pooter, this cycles the ABS actuator in various ways to ensure there is no air in the ABS/ETC twiddly bits.

[Divster]

You can't do a full brake bleed without a T4/Autologic etc.

You can bleed just the lines I think (for example if you have had to change a caliper), but if there is air in the ABS modulator the only way to bleed it is use the purging procedure which you can run from the pooter, this cycles the ABS actuator in various ways to ensure there is no air in the ABS/ETC twiddly bits.

Right then, some old fashioned on......off........on required and if that doesn't work it's of to the local specialist (£££= )

[fisha]

Really?

Is the D2 ABS unit substantially different to the ABS unit in a P38? Reason I ask is that the P38 doesn't need a test book to do a full bleed.

Divster...

you may want to compare your D2's setup to the pictures in the following link which outlines the P38's bleed procedure. I dont know the D2,but the setup may the same and you could try it if it is.

any questions about it ( like depressurising the system ) then let me know

http://www.rangerovers.net/maintenance/brakebleed4.html

[BogMonster]

From RAVE:

"Bleeding of the brake system can be carried out

using the procedures given on TestBook, or by

following the manual procedure given below.

WARNING: If any components upstream of brake

modulator, including the modulator itself are

replaced, the brake system must be bled using

the procedure on TestBook/T4, to ensure that all

air is expelled from the new component(s)."

I have never rummaged in the brakes of a P38a so I don't know whether it is the same or not, but that's what LR say for the D2...