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Originally Posted by NCfarmboy

To flush the fluid, I bought 3ft of vinyl tubing from Lowes, and attached it to the rear most caliper bleeder. My wife then pumped the brakes until all of the old fluid was out - as I filled the resivoir with fresh fluid. All I have to say is that it stops as good as, or better than new. I didn't have any brake issues before - but fresh fluid and pads made a noticeable improvement.

YOU DID NOT FLUSH THE OLD FLUID OUT NOR BLEED THE BRAKES CORRECTLY.

By only bleeding the right rear, you have old fluid in the other three calipers and brake lines. I guess one working caliper is a big difference when you had none.

The correct way to bleed with a helper is to have the helper depress the pedal AND HOLD IT while you unscrew the bleeder screw. You then CLOSE THE BLEEDER SCREW and have your helper release the pedal. Repeat several times until clean, bubble free fluid comes out and move on to the other three calipers to repeat the sequence.

Further more, your helper needs to be very careful not to depress the brake pedal to far. Doing so can damage old seals in the master cylinder when the pedal is depressed father than it normally travels.

Sorry, you botched it. Don't believe me? I dare you to bleed the other three calipers. Whsat comes out won't be fresh Valvoline synthetic.