Rear Brake pipe....??

[BenBaron]

Hi all,

errmmmm , just been setting up my brake pipe to the rear calipers and after reading the Dax Manual, I understand that the pipe is attached to the RH caliper (looking as if your sat in it.) and there is a 'bridge' pipe that runs from the RH calipers bleed hole to the LH calipers proper hole??
Is that right? or should I utilise the thingymigig that has 1 entrance and 2 exits (I suppose you would call that a splitter)?

cheers

Ben

[STEVE G]

Ben
Looked in Mr. Haynes, he seems to contradict hisself.
Diagram shows Bridge pipe as you point out.But text says bleed rear left then rear right.I have to do mine at weekend and havent had a look to see how its set up.If you can wait I'll let you know saturday.

On other hand I cant see that it matters either way.Once system is bled it will work as well both ways.
Steve G
GE427-Rover 281ci.

[ian]

Hello Ben.

I was going to describe in words how to do this but it got so complicated I realised it would just be confusing. If you let me know your fax number I'll send a diagram. Basically both rear calipers are bled from the nearside one's bleed nipple. Your description about the bridging pipe sounds OK but you do need to use the right holes (as my wife keeps telling me {-} )

Ian

[russell_ram]

Ben,

you cvan plumb the rear calipers in either of two ways.

1) as Jag intended -
pipe from master cylinder enters RH caliper outboarb half, bridge pipe from RH outer caliper to RH inner caliper, big bridge pipe accross diff to LH inner caliper, bridge pipe to LH outer caliper, bleed nipple. (or enter LH caliper first - whatever is easiest for your rear brake pipe run). This means you have only one bleed nipple on the rear and hence you bleed both calipers at once.

2) as you suggest
rear brake line into Tee piece. T piece to ineer calipers both sides, bridge pipes to outer calipers, bleed nipple in each caliper.

Either method will work as well as the other. 2nd method just means you have 2 nipples to bleed.

You can also replace the nipple/s on the caliper with a pipe to the outside of the car (chassis mounted) then with an inline male-male connector plumb the pipe into one end and fit a nipple in the other. This makes bleeding even easier as you don't have to scrabble about under the car.

Russ

[johnson]

All the Jaguars I have seen have a single line entering a bronze tee-piece. two lines exit this and run to each rear caliper. There is a cross-over pipe on each caliper and a bleed nipple on each caliper. I have used this system and found no problems.