Re: The best method for one person to bleed brakes?
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08/31/08 05:51 PM
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Go out and spend $50 on a Miti-vac,....nice tool to have around, if you have no friends or your bleeding brakes at 2 O'clock in the morning
Seriously, I know sometimes you feel your better off bleeding the brakes by yourself,.....because the "helper" is just not in sync with you!.....my wife, could never get the "stroke" right
hmmm, funny. she had it done perfect when she helped me out
jk, I havea mity vac also and the little bleeding bowl but Ive never used it. Ive always used the wife (mine, not yours)
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Re: The best method for one person to bleed brakes?
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08/31/08 06:55 PM
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Do what wings440 says. That's the "flat rate" mechanics way of doing it. I do it that very same way, every day at work. Other mechanics aren't going to drop what they are doing to help doing a simple thing as bleeding brakes.
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Re: The best method for one person to bleed brakes?
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08/31/08 07:10 PM
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Go out and spend $50 on a Miti-vac,....nice tool to have around, if you have no friends or your bleeding brakes at 2 O'clock in the morning
Seriously, I know sometimes you feel your better off bleeding the brakes by yourself,.....because the "helper" is just not in sync with you!.....my wife, could never get the "stroke" right
Thats what I did
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Re: The best method for one person to bleed brakes?
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08/31/08 07:23 PM
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Seriously, I know sometimes you feel your better off bleeding the brakes by yourself,.....because the "helper" is just not in sync with you!.....my wife, could never get the "stroke" right
hmmm, funny. she had it done perfect when she helped me out
jk, I havea mity vac also and the little bleeding bowl but Ive never used it. Ive always used the wife (mine, not yours)
Too funny!! I divorsed my wife and twenty years later we get back togeather and she says we can do anything together if we put our minds to it. Then she says the only thing I won't help you do is bleed brakes. We were hi school sweet hearts and before we were married she used to help some in the garage. She was tramatized by me telling her how to do it. I did not realize I was so hard on her but she never forgot.
Since then I bought a pressure bleeder that uses different adapators to fit different master cylinders. It's a for sure deal and works great.
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Re: The best method for one person to bleed brakes?
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08/31/08 07:36 PM
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Take the cap off the master and open all the bleeders. Let them bleed with gravity until no air comes from the bleeder then close it. Keep the MS filled.
Simplest best way I have found also....
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Re: The best method for one person to bleed brakes?
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08/31/08 08:28 PM
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Take the cap off the master and open all the bleeders. Let them bleed with gravity until no air comes from the bleeder then close it. Keep the MS filled.
Simplest best way I have found also.... [/quote
Sometimes that works?....but usually when you need "mother nature's help"......she can dissapoint you sometimes!
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Re: The best method for one person to bleed brakes?
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08/31/08 08:47 PM
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Re: The best method for one person to bleed brakes?
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08/31/08 09:04 PM
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I have a mity vac pump have used it but dont have really good luck with it. I always end up calling out the wife. Sometimes just to torture her I'll just lie there and yell keep pumping the pedal nope not done yet keep going nope not yet keep doing it.Even though Ive been done for awhile and Im just lying under the car kinda daydreaming. Its good fun and it dont cost nothin.
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Re: The best method for one person to bleed brakes?
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08/31/08 09:34 PM
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