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Brilliant way of bleeding brakes!

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I had a problem this morning bleeding my rear brake: Pumping the brake didn't move any fluid at all. I tried various tips from the net, but bubbles came out of the tube at an extremely low rate and the pedal just bottomed out all the time.

So I took it to my guy at the junk shop, and he hooked up some air to the nipple and dislodged some dirt, and everything was OK.

But then, to bleed the brake, he pulled out a syringe.
Forget cups and bottles, this is how I'm doing it from now on.
A syringe, probably about 100ml or so, and a 20cm tube.
Open the bleeder screw, pull the piston in the syringe until it's half full of fluid, then push the pedal and close the bleeder. Refill the reservoir if necessary, and repeat for the other side.
Done.

Unless anyone has any good reasons not to do it this way, I'm never doing the tube into a cup thing again. Ever. :)

Any thoughts?
 
Good it worked for you.Will keep it in mind,Any method that delivers a flushed out and filled back up w/no air bubbles,low hassle job resulting in good feel at lever is desireable for sure.Nice find.
 
That's fine if all your air is near the caliper. :o

If you are starting with a dry system, you will still need several strokes.
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A MityVac is much the same concept, as it sucks the fluid from the caliper, but has MUCH more sucking capacity than a single stroke of a syringe.

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Have diff.gizmos,and schemes,used over yrs.Want mity/vac device though,sounds mity/good/effective/straight/away..Steve,posting help this old boy out,will put on Christmass list.All ideas real good though,really like the thinking of' how to get er done"and correctly, on GSR forms.
 
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