I have a question:  What is the thread pich, diameter, and length of the front and rear brake bleeders on a 2010 Legacy sedan?  I'd like to install speed bleeders (with the internal check valves), but they don't specifically sell them for Subarus newer than 2006 or so.  Asking the question here is easier than removing the OEM bleeders and measuring them, since I'd have to bleed the brakes afterward.

 

If any of you have installed speed bleeders on your newer Subarus, what did you use (manufacturer and part number)?

 

I recently installed speed bleeders on my F-150 and Toyota Sienna, and they made bleeding the brakes so much easier than using a vacuum pump.

 

Thank you for your assistance.

 

Mark

Probably the same as the Toyota.

 

I use rubber vacuum plugs to cap off brake lines whenever I do brake work to keep the fluid from dripping out.

 

Did front brake hoses on a BMW 325 last week and lost less than 4oz of fluid between swapping the lines and getting the air out.

 

Pull the bleeders and stick plugs in the holes to keep the fluid from draining. Then there's no bleeding necessary when you put them back.

+1 to what he said. I've swapped quickly enough it needed nothing more than a quick push it get air out of just that one caliper.

 

I've swapped a fluid pre-filled caliper without

needing to bleed the entire system before.

 

Vice grips can be used on the flexible brake hoses with an old timing belt or something as a cushioning expanding sacrificial spacer as well to clamp them shut. But I realize most people would freak at that.

 

If you do just the passengers side, opposite of the MC, you can get the caliper so high or higher than the MC that the feet of head (in mechanical engineering fluids terms) is much reduced or zero, the fluid doesn't come out (much). But Ive got a high lift jack and I'm not afraid to use it for sone situations like this.

Edited December 31, 20169 yr by grossgary