hello all; I have a 2000, 3.8L...the front passenger side caliper has frozen so I'm replacing it tomorrow when advance gets the part in... What I need to know is, what is involved with bleeding the brakes...I have a good idea I guess, so I'll say what I THINK I know..and yall can criticize me haha

1: Take two bolts off to removecaliperfrom mounting bracket. duh.

2: Remove brake fluid hose

3: Replace brake fluid hose on new caliper reallly, really fast?

I believe step three would be wrong, and don'tknow where (or how)"bleeding the brakes" falls in,so, I would like to gain some insight from those of you who have done this before...also, should I open the brake fluid reservoir while I do this, just like when I replace the pads? I plan on using the same pads and rotor as well, so if that is a stupid then let me know that as well.

 

off the top of my head, I'm not sure if your master is divided between front and rear. assuming it's not, you will want to bleed both rear brakes before you get to that one. you always want to start with the brake furthest from the master and work toward the closest one. with out a pump, this is a two person job and yes you will want to keep the cover off while bleeding. it should be easy enough to find a brake bleeding procedure online because that's a lot of typing and I'm not too good at that