Bleedin' da brakes questions Options

[ahdoman]

Hey all,
Just a couple of brake bleeding questions and a little background as to why I am doing this; Just finished installing the 5 lug conversion in the front (carrera brakes). So I had to unhook the brake lines (lost a little on the garage floor) and the newly rebuilt calipers need to be bled.
1) This is a long shot but; my brake fluid is blue in color. Any guesses as to what kind it is? I'd like to use the same DOT formula and not have to bleed the entire system.
2) If I do have to bleed the entire system how much fluid does the 914 hold and any recommendations for brake fluid?
3) I still have my proprtioning valve in place. What are the chances that the rear brake lines were effected? I am hoping to just bleed the front for now and bleed the rear brakes when I do the 5 lug conversion on the rear later this week.

Thanks for your help.

[angerosa]

I got the solo bleeder valves (I think maybe $25 for 4) so I don't have to ask my wife to come out and sit in a car that's jacked up while I crawl under it. I also saw a thread where someone suggested putting vinyl tubing on the nipple of your bleeder valve and running it over to a drip pan right next to you so you could see what was coming out while you were pumping the pedal. With this method if you know all the fluid in your lines is clean, you could also run the vinyl tubing right back into your reservoir and go to town on the pedal to get air out of p-valve.