USE SAFETY GOGGLES!
REMEMBER TO USE SAFETY GOGGLES WHEN DISASSEMBLING THE HYDRAULIC PIPES!!!
If there is pressure left in the sphere you can get a tremendous gush of LHM in your eyes.
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Replacing
- Lower the car to the lowest position.
- Loosen the bleed screw.
- Pump the brake pedal until the pressure is gone, at the same time as you bleed one of the front brakes.
- On the tube leading from the main accumulator to the brake accumulator: Loosen the two seizures (D + E).
- On the brake accumulator: Remove the hose clamp.
- Clean thoroughly. Blow clean with compressed air.
- Unscrew the two connectors on top of the brake accumulator (B + C).
- Unscrew the connection to the main accumulator (A).
- Lift out. Careful with the pipe hanging on.
- Put the sphere in a vice and loosen the accumulator with a heavy pair of pliers. (The sphere is perhaps sitting terrible hard,
so you must use a hard jerk to get it loose. Make sure then that the pliers do not slip and damage the pipe.)
- Remove the sphere from the vice and unscrew it.
- Blow through the pipe with compressed air.
- Clean inside the accumulator with a paper towel.
- Put a little LHM on the new gasket and put it on the accumulator, not the sphere.
- Put a little mineral grease on the contact surfaces, and screw on the new sphere. Tighten only by hand.
- Put the accumulator back where it belongs. (Can be very difficult to screw in the pipes;
it is easily done to damage/destroy threads. Take your time.)
- Start the car and let it idle for 5-10 minutes.
- Tighten the bleed screw.
- Make sure there are no leaks.
- Bleed the front brakes.
- Top up the LHM.
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It is almost impossible to replace the accu sphere in the car,
because the accumulator is poorly attached. It is therefore best to remove the whole unit and put it in a vise.
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