Bleeding ABS
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Bleeding ABS
Are you ready for some football.good day everyone I need a little help with my brakes.i took my brakes apart and drained all the fluids out so now I need to bleed the ABS. I don't have a scanner to do it with.i would like to buy one but I don't know what kind to get or were to get one. I have looked at snap on tools but there again witch one do you get. I don't want to pay an arm and 2 legs for one. Any ideas thank you.its a 2006 vett all stock LS2.
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Are you ready for some football.good day everyone I need a little help with my brakes.i took my brakes apart and drained all the fluids out so now I need to bleed the ABS. I don't have a scanner to do it with.i would like to buy one but I don't know what kind to get or were to get one. I have looked at snap on tools but there again witch one do you get. I don't want to pay an arm and 2 legs for one. Any ideas thank you.its a 2006 vett all stock LS2.
https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...ternative.html
P.S, I'm in the Denver area, and could stop over to get you squared away with a Tech II, so you don't have to wait for slow mail to get the needed tool isntead.
Last edited by Dano523; Jan 21, 2018 at 03:44 PM.
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Bleeding ABS
I still prefer my Tech II to the VX GM nano, but if you just need a tech II type tool on the cheap to wrench on the car, then the GM nano may have you covered instead.
https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...ternative.html
P.S, I'm in the Denver area, and could stop over to get you squared away with a Tech II, so you don't have to wait for slow mail to get the needed tool isntead.
https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...ternative.html
P.S, I'm in the Denver area, and could stop over to get you squared away with a Tech II, so you don't have to wait for slow mail to get the needed tool isntead.
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Are you ready for some football.good day everyone I need a little help with my brakes.i took my brakes apart and drained all the fluids out so now I need to bleed the ABS. I don't have a scanner to do it with.i would like to buy one but I don't know what kind to get or were to get one. I have looked at snap on tools but there again witch one do you get. I don't want to pay an arm and 2 legs for one. Any ideas thank you.its a 2006 vett all stock LS2.
After doing my own several times I ended up having the dealership do it once to see if they felt any better - nope, they felt exactly the same.
And if you were curious as to how well they continued to work afterwards without using a scanner, I have no trouble slowing down on a regular basis from 130MPH at the dragstrip.
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I've said this before (and gotten blasted for it) but I'll say it again anyway - you can bleed your brakes just fine without using a Tech 2 or any other scanner by bleeding them normally, making a few panic stops to activate the ABS and then bleed them again.
After doing my own several times I ended up having the dealership do it once to see if they felt any better - nope, they felt exactly the same.
And if you were curious as to how well they continued to work afterwards without using a scanner, I have no trouble slowing down on a regular basis from 130MPH at the dragstrip.
After doing my own several times I ended up having the dealership do it once to see if they felt any better - nope, they felt exactly the same.
And if you were curious as to how well they continued to work afterwards without using a scanner, I have no trouble slowing down on a regular basis from 130MPH at the dragstrip.
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With a tech II, your completed with brake bleeding in a few mins all by yourself, including cycling the ABS pump to get the air out of it as well.
Hence brakes, special options, brake bleeding.
Hence brakes, special options, brake bleeding.
Last edited by Dano523; Jan 21, 2018 at 09:14 PM.
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I've said this before (and gotten blasted for it) but I'll say it again anyway - you can bleed your brakes just fine without using a Tech 2 or any other scanner by bleeding them normally, making a few panic stops to activate the ABS and then bleed them again.
After doing my own several times I ended up having the dealership do it once to see if they felt any better - nope, they felt exactly the same.
And if you were curious as to how well they continued to work afterwards without using a scanner, I have no trouble slowing down on a regular basis from 130MPH at the dragstrip.
After doing my own several times I ended up having the dealership do it once to see if they felt any better - nope, they felt exactly the same.
And if you were curious as to how well they continued to work afterwards without using a scanner, I have no trouble slowing down on a regular basis from 130MPH at the dragstrip.
Worked for me.