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Originally Posted by Walt Fricke
If your G50 style reservoir (with provision for the clutch MC) is built internally anything like the earlier reservoirs, there is a fore and aft divider between each of the three outlets, rising about half way up. That way, if one system starts leaking, there will still be adequate fluid in the other two parts of the reservoir. In the older systems, the turkey baster tube end easily gets to the bottom of the two compartments. With yours, it looks like it might be difficult to get it over to the left (from your position with the hood up) to drain all of the clutch part.
When you fill the reservoir to the top, the upper 1/2-1/3d of the reservoir is common to all three segments, would be my guess based on the previous design.
I can never remember if the front of the MC is the line going to the front brakes, or the rear. With a little effort it isn't hard to trace the hard lines. Or someone will chime in and tell you.
What I'd like to learn about is a dye you can put into the fluid (without messing up the chemistry)to aid in seeing when you have completed flushing the four calipers (and the clutch slave). I like Motul 660, but like them all it is pretty clear.
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Mine appears to have two compartments. When standing at the front looking aft, the reservoir cap is on the left side, and the right side is not accessible with turkey baster.
There is a smaller vent hose off the right side near the top; and a larger hose coming out the right side near the bottom. I believe there's also an outlet/hose out the back in the middle, but can't see this to verify where it goes.
As for dye - moisture is the enemy, so food dyes would probably be a bad idea. I was thinking same thing when I started looking for ATE blue - too bad they stopped making it.
@walt Fricke wrote:
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Checking the parts manual, it appears the right reservoir (looking at it from the front of the car) feeds the front of the MC which goes to the front brakes.
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Interesting - I wouldn't have guessed that. Guess it prevents losing all the brakes if part of the system starts leaking. Thank you!
Still not sure what the implications of that are for pressure bleeding!