LatinLS430

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Today I decided to flush out my dark looking brake fluid.
My GS is at 50k and I don't think it has ever been done. The dealership wanted about $200 to do a flush so I decided to do it myself. I had never flushed brake fluid.

After searching the web I found this site:
http://www.speedibleed.com/

I found that they have a kit for Lexus and Toyotas:
http://www.speedibleed.com/http-www-...-html-191.html
It is $74.75 plus shipping from Canada. It's basically a pressure bleeder and it uses your tire pressure to pressurize the pump.

I got my speedibleeder pretty fast. And today I wen to my local Toyota dealer to get two bottles of brake fluid for about $15 bucks.

The instructions that Speedibleed included are very easy to follow. There's more steps in the back side and the printout is in color:


Speedibleed has a video on how to set it all up:

More instructions from Speedi Bleed here:
http://www.speedibleed.com/how_to_bleed_brakes.html

Here's how my brake fluid looked:



Here is the set up:

Fresh brake fluid:


I found out that you need more than two bottles if you want to flush out all the dark brake fluid. So buy at least three bottles if you're going to use Toyota brake fluid conatiners

The instructions tell you to start with the sequence of: RR, LR, RF, LF. So I started with the right rear wheel.

You have to remove the dust cover on the rear bleeder:


The rear calipers have a 8mm bleeder:

Attach your hose to the bleeder:

I also got this little fluid container at Harbor Freight and it came in pretty handy. It came some clear tube hoses that fit perfectly over the bleeders:

Crack open your bleeder and you should get something like this:

Then do the same process on the left rear bleeder.

Now we move the front calipers. The front calipers have 10mm bleeders:



This is how the fluid looked in the brake master cylinder after doing 3 calipers:


Then I moved to the last caliper on the front left.

This is how my fluid looked by the time I was about to run low on brake fluid on the Speedibleed:

As you can see the fluid wasn't as clear and still looked a little dirty in the bottom. So I recommend that you use more than 2 bottles of Toyota brake fluid.

Here is how the brake master cylinder looked after I was done:


Definitely a big difference from the start! But you can still see some of the old dark brake fluid.

Overall this was an easy process and it takes longer to take of the wheels than it does to flush the brake fluid. I'm going to buy two more bottles of Toyota brake fluid and just do the front driver caliper so I can really get all that old dark brake fluid out.

Hope this helps some people. If you're in Phx, AZ I can help you out and just buy me some food! haha.

richard203

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wow ur brake fluid is dirty. how many miles is it? I just changed mines at 48k and wasn't that dirty like urs.

LatinLS430

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Yeah it was pretty dirty. Probably from all the AZ dust we get idk. My car is almost at 50k miles.

phins2rt

Thanks OP. I usually do a gravity bleed. Glad to hear your bleeder worked!

Longevite1

Thank you for detailed information.

Mine wasn't like your, but this will help me out sometime in future.

LatinLS430

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Do you gravity bleed all four calipers or just one? I thought of doing that too. Yeah this bleeder is pretty sweet. No mess at all and the pump help pressure through the whole process.
Cool! I really recommend the Speedibleed. I have other Toyota's in the family so this will work perfectly for several cars.

phins2rt

All four corners just like you would with any bleeding technique. I've had good luck with it and it's cheap!

LatinLS430

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Nice! how long does it take to do all four corners? It took me about two hours to do the whole car.

Gen2IS26

Just before I turned in my '14 leased GS, I was due for the 30k service. Longo Lexus wanted over $700 for an oil change and a brake fluid flush.

Good write up!

LatinLS430

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Wow! And I thought my quote for a brake flush was high. 😰

phins2rt

About 20 minutes per corner, give or take.

LatinLS430

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That's not a bad time at all.

LatinLS430

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I did another flush yesterday with 3 bottles of Toyota fluid and I'm much happier with the results:


The brake fluid was still coming out dark in the rear bleeders and it eventually started to come out cleaner and cleaner.

RA051823

That reminds me of the Motive Power Bleeder that I have. They make changing brake fluid a breeze. I always start at the rear calipers and work my way forward. Nice video!

LatinLS430

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Thanks Dan! Don't you have a video on your YouTube channel on how to flush the brakes? Or maybe you I'm thinking of when you used your Motive Bleeder for the diff fluid change.
A pressure bleeder does make changing brake fluid a breeze that's for sure.