SRowells Black Rallye

[Toms306]

So, many thanks to Bash who relieved the shock and supplied a couple of larger brake unions for us! He also put some considerable effort into sorting a snapped bleed nipple, sadly that wasn't as successful but still appreciated.

Firstly, should there be some sort of plug blocking these holes?



And can you still buy the handbrake '3 sided' clips that go here or is there another way of holding the cable in there?



So I got straight on and finished the brake lines yesterday, have I mentioned how much I hate making brake lines? Anyway, it isn't too spaghetti like lol. Also fitted the new handbrake cables.





And you can see the larger union there, serves absolutely no purpose at all as the pipe is obviously the same diameter, so just Peugeot being awkward I guess. The nut part is 13mm, I didn't check the thread size though.

So, onto bleeding...that went well...





In my defence, the light was fading and I tried to do it quickly before checking everything was tight... After making sure that nipple was fully closed and the union was fully tightened there weren't any leaks lol. So looks like the system is holding pressure which is good lol.

Unfortunately while the OS bled through quickly the NS was a complete pain. Just couldn't get any fluid from the nipple... So loosened the brake line and fluid came from there fine, fully removed the nipple and nothing at all (not sure if it shows in the pic).



That's the one Bash sorted for us so I'm not sure if there was still a bit of old nipple stuck in there or if there's an internal caliper fault that can cause that. I managed to find another caliper in the garage with a loose nipple BUT appeared to be blocked. Swapped that one on quickly (it's now very dark and freezing cold lol) and... No fluid from the nipple, sigh. However, as I loosened it more, fluid came from under it, so we just need a new nipple there.

I did attempt to bleed it from under the nipple but that didn't really work on my own. We do have a firm pedal but only after 2 pumps so guessing there's still air left, first pump of pedal slowly travels to the floor. I also haven't bled the fronts yet but not sure if they NEED doing after only changing rears? I know it's good practice to do all 4 but rather than risk snapping front nipples if we can leave that for now then that'd be good?