Right, got myself a turkey baster, sucked a good amount of fluid out, but I couldn't see the suspected rubber particles in the reservoir anymore? Hopefully it hasn't gone down and buggered something up.
Anyway, got the reservoir nice and empty as possible, you can just about see the old fluid is still covering the inlet for the master cylinder:
Then I tried gravity bleeding in the same fashion as you would bleed the radiator, but I couldn't get a decent seal, resulted in about half a litre of wasted brake oil!
After bleeding the best part of 2 litres through (allowing for the wastage from my unsuccessful gravity bleeding attempt) I had nice fresh fluid all the way through and a firm pedal, save for a few drops of rain as it had annoyingly decided to start raining on the one day I had free to do the job
Anyway, got the reservoir nice and empty as possible, you can just about see the old fluid is still covering the inlet for the master cylinder:
Then I tried gravity bleeding in the same fashion as you would bleed the radiator, but I couldn't get a decent seal, resulted in about half a litre of wasted brake oil!
After bleeding the best part of 2 litres through (allowing for the wastage from my unsuccessful gravity bleeding attempt) I had nice fresh fluid all the way through and a firm pedal, save for a few drops of rain as it had annoyingly decided to start raining on the one day I had free to do the job