[Steve M]

I have completely drained my braking system because the car is getting rebuilt calipers and steel braided hoses. Now I'm going to be putting in ATE blue fluid in and I'll be 'suck' bleeding it with the hand held vacu bleed thing.
Do I need to pre-bleed the 'rear master cylinder' thing-ama-bob? or can I just do the whole thing without the pre-bleed?

The plastic donuts that go around the rear shock underneath the spring perch. Do those things absolutly have to be installed? they wont fit around the Bilstiens. Or can I get away with NOT using them?