ABS Brake Service Notes

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ABS Brake Service Notes

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Just completed the ABS brake fluid service this weekend on Mrs. North's R with iowabeester's advice and links:

http://users.rcn.com/dehager/service/ab ... dapter.pdf
http://users.rcn.com/dehager/service/service_abs3.pdf

Couple of notes from the weekend:

1. You can make a filling adapter without the TOP adapter using a ProPex swivel faucet adapter (available at any plumbing or hardware store) and 5 minute epoxying it into a 3/8" opening funnel. Here's a link to the ProPex site that shows the fitting.

http://www.pexsupply.com/categories.asp ... 3&brandid=

You want the piece that is the insert part with the rubber rounded washer on the other end. This seats nicely into the ABS reservoir filler, but requires a buddy to hold it in place as opposed to the TOP adapter that screws in.

Here's a pic of my finished filler funnelthingy:

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2. For the brake pad blocks, I couldn't find oak as recommended in the service PDF, but discovered that 1/2" plywood quickly sands down to .43". I had the hardware store pre-cut them to the right size so that I didn't have to bring out my saw and fuss with it.

3. If you have a mity-vac, this works better than the turkey-baster to "carefully remove old fluid from the reservoirs" . . . less mess.

Service turned out to be less work than expected, although I did have help from the ever capable Mrs. North :)
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