Brake vacuum / pressure bleeders

[JTRUCKJMC]

Looking for feedback on brake bleeding tools. Anybody has any feedback good or bad give it up. Need to buy a Vacuum / Pressure type :smokin:

[PTSchram]

I use a Motive pressure bleeder and love it-couldn't do my job without it.

PT

[Kartracer55]

Pressure bleeders are my personal favorite, reason being with a vaccuum bleeder you have to worry about emptying the reservior.

The one advantage of a vacuum bleeder (at least the vacula or whatever the hell its called that I use) is that you can suck out other fluids as a sort of "ghetto flush" if you will hahahha

Jim

[64rovr]

We have a nifty one that screws onto the MC cap and pressurizes from a valve stem on a tire. It just has a length of hose with a chuck on it that clips onto a tire on the rig. I like it because its all self contained and could be used anywhere, anytime. It seems like a simpler design as well.

[xrated]

I love mine got it from sears online like a $100 bucks. About $200 cheaper than Snap-on. Oh and it is the vacum bleader..

[welndmn]

I have the reverse fluid injection one from Pheniox (spelled almost everything wrong) Its the best bleeder I have ever used.
But, its kind of a pain to get setup, so i only use on items where you have issues bleeding something.

[Pavemen]

i use this one: http://www.pavementsucks.com/showcase/pressurebleeder_showcase.jpg

review at http://www.pavementsucks.com/showcase/pressurebleeder.php

i love it and have actually loaned it out a few times, they all liked using it

[coolmudrunner]

i use this one: http://www.pavementsucks.com/showcase/pressurebleeder_showcase.jpg

review at http://www.pavementsucks.com/showcase/pressurebleeder.php

i love it and have actually loaned it out a few times, they all liked using it


Thats pretty fucking nifty. But at 150 bucks its more than I would want to spend. :idea: but I do have an old garden sprayer in the shed :idea:

[Pavemen]

Thats pretty fucking nifty. But at 150 bucks its more than I would want to spend. :idea: but I do have an old garden sprayer in the shed :idea:

that will work. pretty easy to build the cap adapters too

[JTRUCKJMC]

Great info, I have seen many of these on line and did not know if they were worth anything. Any more out there? :)

[gnob]

a couple guys i worked with use the might vac vacuum evacuators.
they work well i plan on one in the future

[frontier2k1]

We have a nifty one that screws onto the MC cap and pressurizes from a valve stem on a tire. It just has a length of hose with a chuck on it that clips onto a tire on the rig. I like it because its all self contained and could be used anywhere, anytime. It seems like a simpler design as well.


anymore info and maybe some pictures of this one? sounds interesting...

[Pavemen]

We have a nifty one that screws onto the MC cap and pressurizes from a valve stem on a tire. It just has a length of hose with a chuck on it that clips onto a tire on the rig. I like it because its all self contained and could be used anywhere, anytime. It seems like a simpler design as well.

seems like a lot of pressure. the instructions with my bleeder doesnt want me over 10-12psi.

[64rovr]

We use it almost every day on a number of different vehicles in a high-volume shop never with any issues! It might have some sort of internal regulator I have not looked super closely at it.

[JTRUCKJMC]

Thanks for all the input ! I just ordered a Motive Products model 0252. This has adapters for round and rectangular american port MC's and fits many imports as well as clutch resevoirs. Ordered thru Apex Performance online for
$71.00 with free shipping. They have all the Motive stuff listed there. I think this is going work well for the money.:smokin: :D

[pcorssmit]

My brother made a ghettofabulous version for basically free. Took a steel plate big enough to cover the reservour, drilled/tapped it for a air line quick disconnect, and cut a piece of rubber sheet the same shape. We use either a c-clamp, or a chain-wrench (the vise grip kind). Just turn the pressure down on the air regulator, and you're set. Obviously not as nice or easy to use as a store bought one (you have to keep a close eye on the fluid level), and it only works on cast masters), but for the shade tree mechanic it works great. He got the idea from an old issue of Car Craft.

Pete

[HalfFastFord]

low buck ghetto fab here and it's proven to work. buy a large bottle of brake fluid. punch a hole in the top of the cap to one side. insert a piece of rubber tubing into it that goes all the way to the bottom of the container and has enough to attach to the bleeder valve, about 2 feet should do it. punch another hole in the top of the cap on the other side and make it about the same size as the rubber tipped air lines for your blowgun nozzle. turn the regulator down til you can just get air pressure out of the tip when it's going. About 10 pounds. Make sure to do this with the tip going, some compressors won't regulate properly if set at 10 pounds with the air not flowing. break your bleeder loose, hook up the rubber hose, put the rubber tipped nozzle to the other hole and have someone watch for rising fluid levels/no more air bubbles. Costs are minimal as most if not all of the parts are laying around your shop.

[PTSchram]

seems like a lot of pressure. the instructions with my bleeder doesnt want me over 10-12psi.

You'd be surprised how much pressure the factory uses to bleed brakes. One of my clients made the system GM uses at the Fort Wayne plant. They pressurize the brake systems to 150 PSI:eek:

When he went to see it in action, he almost shit at how the reservoir ballooned up.