RazorLab

iTrader: (8)

Be careful with the willwood bleeders. People that already he-man bleeders will snap those right off.

I even snapped one and I don't he-man bleeders.

LetsGetThisDone

iTrader: (1)

I bleed my brakes a lot and have yet to strip a bleeder lol

The Wilwood bleeders kinda suck, the nipple is super small, can use the regular hose ends that come with vacuum bleeders on it.

honda-guy

iTrader: (55)

Yeah, don't over tighen the willwood bleeder. The brass is soft and don't need a lot of torque to seal. The hose that came with my harbor freight vac bleeder worked fine. Also always have spare bleeder in the tool box.

kaj

iTrader: (60)

hehe, You said small nipples.

Everywhere I see is $15-17ea x 8. I dunno. Maybe I'll just be more careful with my OEM bleeders. The Wilwoods would have been a "just in case" kinda thing, for me.

RazorLab

iTrader: (8)

Same, I have yet to damage a brembo bleeder and I've bled them easily over a hundred times at this point.

Ayoustin

iTrader: (2)

Does anyone run without the rubber caps on their bleeders? I'm missing a couple and am debating either buying a few or just taking them all off. Kind of a pain to pull them off every time I bleed and the car only gets driven in the spring/summer so I woudln't think debris/corrosion would be a problem, but it's also not something I've really thought much about.

LetsGetThisDone

iTrader: (1)

I leave them off. Half the time I'm bleeding brakes, prying them off with the screw drive is a pain, then I drop them and it takes 20 minutes to find the stupid things lol

kaj

iTrader: (60)

I have a visual of Benny Hill music while you crawl around the car, mistaking OPR for your cap.
I leave mine on because I'm paranoid about junk getting in the, admittedly pretty-much-impossible-to-get-anything-into little holes. Mine are still looped to the bleeder, though, so I just put the wrench in the loop and pop them right off.
If the loops were to break, I admit I'd probably stop using them because prying them off the nipple is not something I want to deal with while trying to bleed in between sessions, in 100* heat.
Race cars seem to do fine with no little rubber caps, and I now they have a lot more crap flying around their calipers than I do.

RazorLab

iTrader: (8)

If you use the right fluid you shouldn't need to bleed between sessions at all. If I had to do that I would probably never do track events again. Sounds like a pain in the ***.

kaj

iTrader: (60)

It was my fault. I didn't expect to do any track days this year, so didn't swap fluid like I usually do. I had to bleed after my first session, but all was good after that. It was my first time braking from the top of 5th gear for a slow, 3rd gear hair pin. I was not prepared.
And yes, it sucked because I wasn't in a garage that day.

dave_evolvix

iTrader: (1)

I have been using ATE Type 200, and during the smoking hot day 2 at ABCC I managed to boil in the calipers. A quick bleed between sessions is what it needed to be ready to go again. I bleed before every event and flush completely every season. So long story short, it can happen, but it is unusual. Haven't had this happen since road america.

kyoo

iTrader: (29)

i did a full flush of castrol srf yesterday - hoping to be good to go for the track day on saturday! i went back to OEM boots & seals with my vented stainless steel pistons from Racing Brake, hopefully that solves the leaking issue I had with the high temp seals. I've got TI shims, that should protect the OE boots & seals

kikiturbo

speaking about overheating brakes.. I have been discussing with european carbotech dealer about him producing a set of pads with stainless backing plates. SS has much less thermal conductivity than mild steel and thick backing plates might serve as a nice isolator from pad heat. I even wanted to do a back to back test, bought a set of caliper oil thermocuples for that purpose, but with a switch to the new brake setup I am not sure about the purpose of spending extra money on an extra set of pads just to get some fame on the forums. However I am surprised no one tried that to my knowledge.
The pads for my new brakes will be experimental though and use SS backing plates..

kaj

iTrader: (60)

Thick SS backing plates. I'm surprised nobody thought of that sooner.

RazorLab

iTrader: (8)

I never said it can't happen. There is for sure better fluid than ATE as well. Prospeed RS683 and Castrol SRF would be two of them.

With Prospeed I can go a couple events without the "maintenance" bleed between events.