Re: Brake Bleeding


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Posted by Rich in Colorado [71.237.72.4] on Saturday, June 12, 2010 at 11:27:55 :

In Reply to: Brake Bleeding posted by S. Bear [72.209.209.58] on Saturday, June 12, 2010 at 08:25:19 :

Seems like injecting Fluid from the wheel cylinder to the master would make a mess and you couldn't see if you were getting air or not. Heres what I did:
At the suggestion from someone at Vintage, I made a power bleeder. You can take a pump style weed sprayer and modify it to bleed. (Use a new one, they are cheap and you don’t want any leftover chemicals in you brake fluid.) While you are at Home Depot buying a sprayer get a threaded ½ inch pipe to 5/16 OD male tubing connector fitting and six feet of clear plastic tube. Cut off the spray head and attach 5/16 ID tubing and clamp it. Screw the ½ pipe fitting into the top of the master cylinder then push the tubing from the sprayer into the connector now sticking up out of the master cylinder and clamp it. Put a couple of quarts of brake fluid into the sprayer, and then pump it up. Press the valve that is on the wand. This will pressurize the brake system. Put clear tubing on the rear right bleeder into a cup; loosen the bleeder until there is no air. Keep going around like normal bleeding, rear right, rear left, front right, lastly front left. Pump, valve, bleed, tighten, pump and so on. You can watch the level of fluid in the sprayer so not to run out. The master cylinder will always be full. This does ruin that quality time spent your wife pumping the brake petal 150 times. Maybe you can make it up to her by having her do something she enjoys as much a bleeding brakes. Like cleaning grease off the driveway, or going to the store to buy you a six pack.



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