Is it possible a brake cylinder can go in flipped over?

daft question, i know, but!

came to bleed brakes this morning, on me 109 so its got the dual thingie front brakes, and the front passengers seems to be the wrong way round, the bleed nipples in a different place to the drivers side and cant get a pipe on it. if so the previous owner fooked up royal :crazy:

also what diameter pipe do i need? bought one of them tubes with a bung n the end and a slit in it, but its too small, good job it cost a quid

dont forget - if a cylinder has the bleed nipple pointing towards the rear on one side, it will point towards the front on the other.

or could the bleed nipple and brake lines been put in the wrong way round?

:nopics:

should they? cos arent the cylinders 'handed'?

hang on a min....... i'll send tom back out

here we go:

either that or he's just fitted the wrong type, cos they are 'handed' and different for swb/lwb

or cud have fitted the pipe and nipple in wrong positions (swapped)

thats what i'm thinking, am i gonna need a new cylinder? or is it a case of might as well, seein as i'm taking it all apart to swap anyway, well, do i need to swap them? or does it not really matter

im doin this cos i need to pump my brakes atleast twice to get anything, was gonna start bleeding today but then found this

corse - wot wud help is a cupple of pics of sumone elses.....

The Mad Hat Man said:

corse - wot wud help is a cupple of pics of sumone elses.....

Click to expand...

hold on for a couple of mins... I'll check mine.

The lower cylinders:

Both bleed nipples face towards the front.

The upper cylinders:

The pipes from the master cylinder come in from the rear.

It's probably been done correctly on mine because the previous owner (who fitted the brakes himnself) was a chief naval engineer or something. The SIII parts catalogue says it's 243743 for the right handed cylinders and 243744 for the right handed ones. The part numbers may be stamped into the castings if you're lucky.

well, i'l try and bleed the other 3 cylinders, and if i get a firm pedal, woo! if not, looks like the cylinders being replaced, might as well do the lot

tah for that

Good luck with that... I feckin hate bleeding Land-Rover brakes.

well after the failure of the pipe, toms thinking of getting wanna them gunson eezibleed, gonna go down halfrauds after and look at one properly

Those eezibleed type things can be made quite easily if you're into saving a few quid and have the necessary bits and bobs lying around. After doing the bleeding like this once - I'm not going to bother with the old method:

1. cut the shrader valve stem out of an old bicycle inner tube leaving a 20mm rubber flange.
2. drill out an old brake master cylinder cap and push the valve through the hole from the underside.
3. unscrew the valve from the valve stem.
4. take the hose of a tyre pump
5. attach the hose to the valve stem with a jubilee clip
6. Screw the master cyl. cap on and lash it down with some string (it can pop off if you don't do this and spray brake fluid everywhere)
7. connect the valve adapter on the other end of the hose to an inflated spare tyre

them easibleed fings are feckin great.
don't exceed 20psi though! my mate's fluid reservoir exploded when he did that - big mess!

Yes, looks like they have used a wrong handed one.
I find the easiest way to bleed the brakes is to jack up the corner you are working on as high as poss. Just crack open the bleed nipple and let gravity do the work (dont pump the brakes at all) wait till no more bubbles appear and clean fluid is dribbling out then tighten the nipple and repeat on the other corners. Works fine on single circuit brakes anyway. Pumping away with the pedal sometimes seems to fill the fluid with loads of tiny bubbles.

Treworgey 90 said:

them easibleed fings are feckin great.
don't exceed 20psi though! my mate's fluid reservoir exploded when he did that - big mess!

Click to expand...

Yeah wear goggles if you're poking about under the bonnet with the easy bleed pressurised. I'd guess it's not nice getting brake fluid in your eyes, and have some rags and water nearby if the fluid sprays all over the paintwork (It wrecks paint). It's worth the possible explosions though as it gets the brakes bleed like magic.