The quick answer is no: You don't need to bleed your brakes if you change your brake pads properly. However, there are some good reasons why you should. Let's start with the concept of brake bleeding ...

Depending on the automotive part, air is crucial or crucially harmful. Whereas an engine needs air to function properly, the opposite is true for a car’s braking system. To operate effectively and ...

Your Jeep's brake system is more important than the engine. The engine will make it go, but the brakes are what make it stop. A poorly functioning engine will just make it go slower, but poorly ...

Of the variety of systems your Mopar features, the braking system is likely the most important in terms of safety. And while most brake work is pretty straight forward, the one procedure that can be a ...

View post: This Cordless Drill Set Is Only $32 at Amazon, and Shoppers Say It’s ‘Worth Every Penny’ In 10,000 miles of driving, you hit your brakes an estimated 60,000 to 70,000 times. Yet brake fluid ...

Hydraulic brakes have been around for nearly a century, and though many manufacturers were using this system by the 1920s, Ford for instance, waited until 1939 to introduce four-wheel hydraulic brakes ...

So you've swapped out your old, weathered brake lines for some fresh stainless steel. Great! Now you just have to fill those fancy new lines with brake fluid, a tiresome and boring process that ...

You've read the title of this story on the contents page and probably flipped to this story wondering "what can really be new in brake bleeding?" Well, if you're still asking your wife to sit in the ...

Bleeding brakes can be very satisfying – and absolutely necessary when you have a spongy lever feel because of air in the system. But it’s not a panacea. There are many and varied reasons why your ...

In our regular tech Q&A series, we put your burning cycling questions to industry experts. This time, Shimano explains the logic behind its one-way bleed system. I would really like to know why the ...

View post: Would You Be At Fault for Rear-Ending a Car in the Rain If Its Lights Were Off? I Ask A Lawyer. In 10,000 miles of driving, you hit your brakes an estimated 60,000 to 70,000 times. Yet, ...