How to Flush Your Brake Fluid // Bleed Your Brakes at Home! (feat. my 3rd Gen Toyota 4Runner!)
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To see how to test your brake fluid, check out my videos:
For moisture: • How to Test Your Brake...
For copper: • Testing your Brake Flu...
To measure your brake pad thickness: • How to Measure your Br...
For my video on installing hood struts on the 4Runner: • Installing Hood Struts...
Tools used in this video:
Capri Tools Vacuum Bleeder: amzn.to/36QXS61
Harbor Freight Reservoir Top-Off Bottle is just like the one in this kit: amzn.to/3lMPAma
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Parts used in this video:
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Bleeder Caps: amzn.to/2UCk1iS
HUGE THANKS to my wonderful husband for playing the role of my "buddy" in this video 😊💗
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Anyone can admire how meticulous she is when addressing and explaining the technical side of things involving vehicle maintenance. Great video 👍🏻
She seems like a very through mechanic.....the type I'd want working on my vehicles. Keep up the good work ma'am.
@FayeHadley
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!!
@comodice905
Жыл бұрын
Dawg Faye is best in biz there is none higher sukeer...M.C. s will call her sire echo echo echo
@dalephillips8250
Жыл бұрын
@@comodice905 LOL
@montyjay8726
6 ай бұрын
Ok simp
@3TNT3
6 ай бұрын
@comodice905 Huuuh??? Can you say that, again, in English?
This is proof the phone listens all the time. I was watching All Girls Garage Saturday and this pops up now.
@FayeHadley
3 жыл бұрын
Whoa! CRAZY! I always wondered because most of my subs didn't know that I was on All Girls Garage!
It's such a pleasure to watch a mechanic who is meticulous and pays attention to all the details!
Also, in typical Faye fashion, you explain this so well that I’m starting to think I can actually do it on my own. 😎🤩
@FayeHadley
3 жыл бұрын
You CAN do it! :) And thank you!! :)
I learned that same philosophy about stirring up the fluid from a grandmaster in my very first shop. It’s great to keep passing down old school knowledge from some of the greats.
Thanks for all the help. It's awesome that you included a version with less tools. Sometimes I find videos like this where every step looks doable then they bust out a fancy tool I don't have and move on to the next step. A lot of us watching these videos aren't mechanics and are working on our car because we can't afford the shop, so I really appreciate the low budget version.
Great tutorial, & the home made brake bleeding plastic bottle is a good idea (for those who don't know about it). The only thing I would have mentioned is to first fill the bottle about 1/4 full of brake fluid, & make sure the bleeder hose is submerged in the fluid, to prevent air from being drawn into the brake lines during brake pedal release while bleeding brakes. Otherwise, very meticulous work & great enthusiasm!🙂
You know, back in Providence those bleeder screws would have broke😀 It must nice to work in an area were they don’t salt the roads
@burnerloco4138
3 жыл бұрын
Totally agree, I lived on the west coast and moved to the mid west. Night and day difference on my approach to working on vehicles.
@MapleMarmite
3 жыл бұрын
Same here in eastern Canada. The day before I plan on undoing brake bleeders I wire brush them and soak them in Liquid Wrench or whatever.
@HouseCallAutoRepair
3 жыл бұрын
You really can't appreciate auto repair until you've repaired cars that drive in SALT!
@mikedelta1679
3 жыл бұрын
@@MapleMarmite Brake seals don't like Liquid Wrench :(
@podamis314
3 жыл бұрын
@@MapleMarmite Suggest just enough liquid wrench to wet the threads and then barely loosen the nut and spray brake cleaner on the area to prevent oil contamination.
My Suzuki SX4 needs a brake fluid change so I will follow every step from this video. Thank you
Faye, it's GREAT to see Grim again. Thanks!
@FayeHadley
3 жыл бұрын
😀😀😀
She pays attention to detail. These videos are excellent.
I’m paused at 7:29 and am just blown away at the lack of rust. Like, my GOD, what the hell!? A NEW car on the LOT here in CT will have rust already.
I really appreciate how generous you are with your knowledge 👍
Great job showing a few different ways to bleed the brakes.
She still bringin it.outstanding.
I really like her attention to detail. All of the little things add up
Digging the Coat hanger idea. Great Video.
Excellent! Very clear and straight forward explanation of the process. You make it look so easy.
Think I found my new favorite mechanic channel
Great video, Faye. I love the homemade bleeder bottle idea. Simple solutions for everyday problems. Keep up the great work.
Love your humor and how thorough you are.
@FayeHadley
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
Great to see young people doing great presentations and being in business for themselves.
I like that the engine compartment is nice and clean.
Great video, Faye! One mention on the homemade bleeder set up, especially for solo brake bleeds/flushes. It's a good idea to make sure the hose reaches all the way to the bottom of the bottle as well as having enough brake fluid covering the end of the hose before getting started. This prevents those pesky air bubbles from sneaking back up the line.
@metzmatu8409
3 жыл бұрын
Good point
@tayloralvidrez4342
7 ай бұрын
That is the best method, which allows for solo bleeding. I'm surprised she didn't mention it
Thanks again Faye! The DIY bottle bit is fantastic.
I like her extremely positive attitude. Uplifting.
Really appreciate your videos and smiles!
Once again great informative vid, my professional lovely pixie.
Great to see someone well qualified creating these how tos
Just bought a 3rd gen 4runner to love on and all your video's are super handy!
not only are you a brilliant mechanic but you're a first class instructor as well, great personality too.
Great video, and as always your energy is infectious!
I've learned a lot from this video. Thank you - a beautiful young mechanic.
I love the way you take time over each step of every job. Great inspiration for someone like me who tends to rush a bit sometimes :-)
I did this to my truck and works perfect,thanks Faye,you are incredibly smart and super adorable.
Very thorough and informative video, dig the blue streaks too
I have been working on my own cars for decades. Amazed by all the little tricks you employ to get the job done. Could have used these videos years ago!
You're awesome! I love watching all of your how to videos! Thank you!
I always use the water bottle trick. I love it. A cheap tool that has not failed me in 40 years.
Very impressed with your skill and knowledge across the videos I've seen, appreciate the sharing. Thanks.
I love listening to your voice. I like watching you do these things. I do all these things myself but you make it all very interesting.
The last four minutes of this video is my favorite!! Most channels don’t show this part! Thank you Faye!
This is such an awesome channel. Faye, you do an amazing job explaining everything. Keep up the great work
@FayeHadley
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!
Great tutorial, I like the way you use your rags to clean up spills, also you keep your tools very clean and organized. You also explain things very well. thank you.
@FayeHadley
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!!
I love watching you. You are so fun and great vid. Take Care Faye
Faye thank you for being so detail! I now have the confidence to do my breaks. Thanks Juan.
@juanruiz1260
2 ай бұрын
Hi Faye just wanted to let you know I did my breaks and they turned out amazingly well! Very happy thank you!!
Love your videos, you are sooo inspirational. Please keep making the tutorials, they're great for home mechanics like me.
@FayeHadley
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for your feedback!!! 😀
She gave multiple ways to do it and I’m here for it.
Well spoken and direct to the point!!!! I Loved it.
You have amazing eyes and a great laugh!! And you really know what your doing! Keep up the great work Faye!!
@FayeHadley
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!!
Thank you! I just ordered a one way bleeder valve, think it will be easier than my hand operated vacuum bleeder
Wow. I thought changing your brake fluid was difficult to do . It looks fairly easy.. Thank you Faye for the DIY. I can do this. 👍 wish me luck
Perfect timing! Just bought the one way bleeders and I am eyeing the little plastic bottle next to me. Thank you Faye! The snail is adorable!
@FayeHadley
3 жыл бұрын
Awesome!!!
I just changed the master cylinder on my ‘96 4Runner and bled the brakes. Great videos! I love showing my daughter positive female role models like you! Keep up the good work.
@FayeHadley
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!!!
Definitely used your video to flush my brakes while I was replacing the pads and rotors. Awesome stuff.
Man... every time am in a bad mood i watch faye and man i calm down quick she seems soo nice. And also learn new things too. Love it :) also love her tat's
Good video for the beginner AND the experienced.
Using the line wrench is a great idea. An old guy here, and my dad taught me to use a line wrench on the bleeder valves when I was a teen back in the '70s. Also, to be sure to use a 6 point socket if using a socket. Those bleeders are kind of delicate and are easily rounded off with an open end wrench or a 12 point socket. These videos are true tutorials in that they are full of useful information. So much so, that I often have to rewind in order to catch all of the tips being presented.
Thank you for the video, making my make shift bottle now!
Don't really work on cars, or really know much about fixing them BUT i have enjoyed your videos ! love the energy keep on being you!
Thanks Faye! The internet appreciates you!
@FayeHadley
3 жыл бұрын
AWWWW 😅
Good video that covered some great points. I've been bleeding and flushing brake systems for over 30 years and I managed to learn something I didn't know watching this. For the last five or so years I've migrated to a pressure-feed system that introduces fresh brake fluid into the master cylinder reservoir under constant pressure (about 10 psi) and allows me to collect the old fluid from each caliper by just opening the bleeder. Although it costs more and requires a bit more care and concentration, I've found that for me it produces the best results faster and more reliably. But, the bottom line is, ALL the methods you described will do the job, the key is to change your fluid before it corrodes and damages the expensive components in your system (like the ABS pump).
Awesome way to start the week!! Thx Faye......✌🏾
I’ve been using those 1 person bleeders with the little cone shaped end you push into the bleed valve. I guess that’s not a good way of doing it. I like the idea of the one way valves, though I’d not heard of them until now. Thanks for that - and the better way of getting your friend to help. The way I was shown years ago seems over the top and uses more fluid, also too aggressive. Always happy to learn a new/better way!
Great video from this young lady,old school technique remind me my dad doing that about 50 years ago .
thank you for the links to the bleeder check valves and the bleeder bottles. used your links to purchase both!!
Looks about same color fluid I got out of my 05 Colorado. Used a turkey baster to clean the reservoir out and the Motive brake bleeder. 👍🏻
Love the homemade budget approach! I may have to use that if my wife gets fed up with me asking her to pump the pedal while i bleed brakes lol. I have a 89 supra, 05 camry and 11 4runner. The method you explained here works for all of them!
Excellent video . I have spent most of my life using the bottle with aquarium tubing and I enjoy how you go thru all of various levels of tools and techniques
Fantastic video! Thanks for showing the DIY brake bleeder, I will definitely make one and use it.
Thankfully, the moisture tester you recommended shows that my fluid is solid, so I’ll save this video for when it goes sour.
This girl is the best I've seen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
U are brilliant,,love u,,that last tip with the bottle was very good for me,,thank u
Love you're videos ! I have a 09 Tacoma that got a frame replacement in 2020 , the dealer had it for 2 weeks and the day that I picked it up I found out that they didn't finish the job as they should have . I brought the truck back to work and a co worker found fluid leaking on the ground so I returned truck to the dealer and they finished tightening brake lines going to abs module. Wasn't real happy that the dealer did such shoddy work!
She’s a winner !!! Awesome tutorial
I wasn’t going to watch this since I’ve bleed brakes probably a hundred times but to my surprise I learned a few things. I enjoyed watching also, well edited somehow made it look like a fun job, even though I always dread doing it. Great video!
@FayeHadley
3 жыл бұрын
Awww :) thank you!!!
What a great video! I'm planning to flush my '96 4Runner's brakes this weekend and this is by far the most detailed and easy to follow video I've found. Plus, I could listen to you talk all day! Love your enthusiasm! Thank you!
Another great video. Love the 3rd gen 4Runner, I have a 98 sr5 that I wrench on as needed.
Sup Faye? thank you so much, the video is fun to watch and I like ur style, you flipped all Mechanic boarding videos to a interesting videos to watch. I was looking to video to help me with my work 01 4Runner and I got lucky to get great instructions through ur clips. Thanks again and best wishes from all us from Houston.
Well done and great presentation. I'm now looking for an old water bottle. Thanks for sharing!
Great video. Will use the cheap bottle method after rebuilding my 5th Gen front brake caliper seals/pistons!
You are awesome! Before now I never knew this tool existed and I was very happy to see that such a vacuum bucket compressor attachment existed! It's going to make bleeding the brakes on my forerunner so much easier!
Great videos, am actually learning and intend to start working on my own vehicle
So fun to watch! Thanks!
Ooooh my GaaHWwwwwd!! Gorgeous Faye. Straight stunning, and an absolute Toyota genius, my heart is flipping back flips in LOVE with you.
@mooses6
2 жыл бұрын
P. S. Thank you for all the helpful content!
i had a 99' for 11 years 320k miles. sold it to a kid for cheap when i got my 4th gen, i still see him rolling around in it. best trucks around
Faye, watching your videos, I'm learning English;)And your presentation of the material is very interesting👍😉
@FayeHadley
2 жыл бұрын
Oh, wow!! I am so happy to hear that!
Thank you. Great video. Ya I don’t have friends to help with this. Thanks for all the info. I appreciate it. Pump those brakes!!!!!! You rock!!! ❤️❤️
I was taught never to leave the valve open like you did at 8:30 we were told air would suck back in and sit at the top. They taught us to close the valve when fluid was coming out, part of the reason we used line wrenches rather than sockets. Of course back in those days we were taught to bleed into a rag if we didn't have a hose. Then you could use the fluid soaked rag to polish the chrome bumpers...different times I suppose.
Great and lovely work
Love your energy enjoy your vids too
I want to thank you for your videos. My granddaughter loves working on machines with me and her dad. Oh and she is 7 years old and loves to wear a dress.
Only person I would trust to work on my car. All tho I do work on my own car. Lol but I love the personality. I wish there was people like her were I work at as a tech. I learned Soo much just watching.
Hi Faye love your personality your always so up beat always smiling looks like you never have a day and if you do you don't show it on top of that your a good mechanic
Nicely done, thanks Faye ❤️👍
This is how to make your vehicle feel newer! Nothing worse than wishy washy brakes and changing the fluid can really help the feel if the fluid is old. Great video.
@FayeHadley
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!!!
Thanks for sharing this video, interesting and informative.
Very good. i suck at doing brakes. Lots of little best practices to pick up on that I'm probably not doing.
Little suggestion for the techs up here in the rust belt. Especially on an older ride like this one. We experience this phenomenon know as rust. You may want to four post a vehicle on Jack stands and pull the wheels, simply because those bleeder screws can have and will stick. Having the extra hand room to use a long 10mm or longer ratchet will save you sooooo much cursing. Welcome to the “Wonderful World of Corrosion!” Oh, an pump them first. I dunno about stirring up anything, but I want the calipers and cylinders loaded to take out as much old brake fluid as possible. Especially with the “buddy system” technique it’ll ensure you get a solid pedal and fresh fluid across the board. Nice work as always ma’am!