anybody have any luck with just replacing the seals and bleeding the brakes without having to do a power bleed?

 

I bought the 65.00 rebuild kit, replaced the seals, and just bled the master cylinder to the ABS Block. No issues after that.

 

with a scan tool or by hand? Care to elaborate

 

You won't need to bleed ANYTHING if you haven't messed with it yet. Once you put the resv' back on with new seals, go to man' bleed each of the 2 lines right @ the master: if you have fluid right away & no air then you're good. But if you remove the MC and rebuild it, may be a dif' story.

 

that's what I was thinking. Get the wife in there and get her to pump it a few times and do like a manual bleed on those two lines

 

To rebuild the master cylinder properly with all the parts included in the kit (rear o-rings, & yellow plastic retainer as well as the reservoir seals) I highly recommend removing it from the vehicle. Then you reconnect everything and with a person inside pumping you bleed it at the ABS Block (two lines from the master cylinder go straight to the ABS Block). Bleed it, fill it, bleed it, fill it, then switch to the last line and repeat bleading it, filling the reservoir, and bleeding it. You should have a firm pedal after that and no more issues. I've done this in a parking lot on the side of the road in less than 20min from start to finish.

 

Exactly. I had her pump the brakes, there was fluid @ both. All I had to do was top it off & good to go.

 

Note to self - Get a wife so I can bleed my brakes

 

well sometimes it can be a good thing and sometimes a bad things. Depending on what mood she is in and if you are working on your disco. She hates it. Says it cost too much money for a toy after I have bought her countless BMW's and whatever she wanted and I get me a "toy" to go hunting and tailgating in. Hell I might have 5 grand in so far and maybe 8-10 when I get it exactly how I want it. I got her a golf cart she wanted that when I got through was 7k so I might wanna hold off on one for a while. Just get a fwb

 

Also make a friend close by that owns a disco so that way you don't have to get a wife and one who will understand the reason you still have one