Thread: Need help bleeding the brakes on a W123 240D -- tons of air
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Old 01-16-2016, 04:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Mölyapina View Post
Ahh rats. So do you think that I need to re-bleed the master?

EDIT: Just re-read this and understood it better. I definitely never went that low in the reservoir -- I think that the most that i ever let the fluid drop was 1/5 of the way from full to empty.
I'll probably start WW3 by saying that bench bleeding is a waste of time. But it is!
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