Re: Brake fluid changing...

[Marker510@aol.com]

In a message dated 97-04-28 03:15:52 EDT, rstuart@U.Arizona.EDU (Ross B
Stuart) writes:

<< > 
 > At first a felt a little miffed.  But then I read on:  "On cars equipped
with
 > the Teves 20 GI ABS/EDL system, Volkswagen's V.A.G. 1551 scan tool is
needed to
 > bleed the brake system.  
 
 
 This is what I thought.  So I took my GTi into my mechanic to have some
 stainless steel brake lines put on.  He unhooked the old line, and
 when he saw that the brake lines wouldn't fit, re-connected the old one.
 I asked him about bleeding the lines with the Vag 1552 tool, and he said
 he didn't.  The car stops the same as it ever did.  Maybe he didn't need
 to bleed them, I don't really know.
 
 Ross Stuart
 5/96 Surf Green  
  >>
You only need the VAG to cycle the master cylinder if you replace the master
cylinder or get air into it.   taking off the brake lines downstream will not
let air into the master cylinder if you don't pump the brakes with the
hose(s) off.  Bleed as "normal" after all is together.  

Mark Rosenkrantz
Marker510@aol.com