bleed brake

[r-reg-sr]

any one made a nice one man brake bleed device?

 

[Guy]

I made a reverse bleeding kit once when I had my series 3 Land Rover which are a right two-hat to bleed. It was a wooden frame think with a clutch master cylinder and some hose etc To be honest, a Gunson Easibleed would be best bet. I bought one recently when I was fitting my stainless hoses and it worked a treat .

 

[r-reg-sr]

ah right
putting a little constant air pressure at the fill hole side wont help a k11 ?

 

[Guy]

It should do, I let my spare down to 15 PSI with the Easibleed and it worked spot on .

 

[r-reg-sr]

so er,,,,,,,,well how hard/easy would that be to build ? :grinning:

 

[getawaycar]

How do you get an Easi-bleed to fit a Micra?

We have one, with all the adaptors. None of them fit so we bought a 'universal' adaptor directly from Gunson. That didnt work either!

 

[r-reg-sr]

what wood a spare sraper brake fluid cap aid as ?

 

[superls]

the most novel idea ive seen is a piece of tube 6mm diameter whatever fits the nipple, long enough to go into a jar, the open end of the tube is blocked up and a slit is cut up the pipe 10-15mm long with a sharp blade. works surprisingly well, need fairly thick walled tube tho.

 

[solarice]

I've before just worked the brake till it was hard then wedged in a piece of wood to keep the pedal down and quickly ran around to the brake...took ages haha but worked and its free.

But i guess a brake fluid cap, an old tyre or similar valve, suitable sized hose, some adhesive and compressed air (tyre, bike pump etc) should do the job.

Or of course buy a tool...

 

[superls]

and for my k10, i got a spare filler cap, fit an air line connector to it, then fed low pressure brake fluid in that way and just undid the brake calliper nipples one at a time till it was running clear to change the fluid.

 

[solarice]

the most novel idea ive seen is a piece of tube 6mm diameter whatever fits the nipple, long enough to go into a jar, the open end of the tube is blocked up and a slit is cut up the pipe 10-15mm long with a sharp blade. works surprisingly well, need fairly thick walled tube tho.

Ive got one of those now, cost a £1 or so iirc.

 

[r-reg-sr]

But i guess a brake fluid cap, an old tyre or similar valve, suitable sized hose, some adhesive and compressed air (tyre, bike pump etc) should do the job.
Or of course buy a tool...

aint buying nuthing FTW :grinning:,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,i'ma try that their above,,,,,,valving up to a infalted tyre or sumit :grinning:

 

[solarice]

lol yup, worst it'll do is not work

 

[r-reg-sr]

i started this thread to avoid stuff failing :grinning:

 

[solarice]

i started this thread to avoid stuff failing :grinning:

Worst case

 

[solarice]

mmm Ok ignore the above, the page seemed to refresh and post that itself while i was writing (dunno what to tell ya lol)...what i was gonna say was nothing to loose trying it.