Brake bleeder suggestions
Interested in upgrading mine, any feedback on the ones offered would be appreciated. I see they have a power bleeder and my first thought was brake fluid under air pressure around my painted vehicles.
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- Not exactly sure what you refer to.. Bleeding the wheel (caliper's) after changing pads, replacing (flush and refill fluid) or just insuring there is no air in the system?
I use either a Mityvac vacuum pump with a catch bottle and / or allow gravity to fill the wheel cylinders and do the final pull with the Mityvac.
As a rule, your master cylinder will always be higher than your wheels and brake fluid is pretty viscous so it flows readily and fluid always flows downhill.
I do a brake fluid flush and refill every few years. Fluid is cheap, even DOT 5. - I don't like pressure systems either. Too messy and you know how bad that fluid is for causing corrosion.
For simple bleeding chores I just use the two person method.
FOr more complicated work, like after replacing all the hard and rubber lines, I have another system that's works fantastic.
Start with a Mighty Vac 16oz reservoir link and then buy about 20' of 1/4" vacuum line frm Amazon for a few bucks.
Attach the vacuum line to a vac source on the vehicle and on to the reservoir. Attach the reservoir to the fitting and start the engine.
Now you can crack the lines and have a strong (but not too strong) source of continuous vacuum to bleed with. Note that the fluid never enters the vac. line to the eng.
This method is cheap, extremely controllable and quick.
