Need advice on brake bleeder set-ups
 

Yesterday, someone broke into my friend's garage and stole his welder, one tool box and my two-gallon rollaround brake bleeder :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

Insurance will pay for some, but the real issue is finding a replacement, since this was an old commercial version not made any more.

That said, I'd like to get a source for a good one of the smaller one-two quart/liter bleeders with multiple adapters. Personal experience preferred.

Thanks

I have a pressure bleeder from Motive that works well for my W123. It has a cap that fits on the brake fluid reservoir. Just pump it up to 5lbs or so and you're off...

I made my own

I use the $30 craftsmen handheld vacuum pump

An old reservoir cap and a tire valve works for me.

disposable brake bleeder
 

I've described a disposable 25 cent brake bleeder somewhere here a while ago. Basically a piece of clear flexible tubing and a disposable plastic dropper. Cut the dropper in half, discard lower portion, insert rest in tubing leaving the dropper bulb at the end. With a razor, cut a half inch slit in bulb along long axis. Drop this end in bottom of your collection flask, install tubing on bleeder valve and open bleeder valve. Some brake fluid will begin to ooze down the tube. Just pump you brakes one wheel at a time in the usual sense, with your reservoir open. What magically happens is that under pressure of the pumping, the dropper bulb slit opens into a fishmouth letting fluid out. On the return stroke, the slit closes, letting back a minimum of the old fluid, goes up the tubing only about an inch. One pump stroke moves at least 10 times that amount of fluid. After all 4 are done, toss the brake bleeder. Forget those $30 bleeder screws with the check valves. This slit dropper is a Czech valve. Happy flushing!

I bought a unit some years ago called Power Bleeder or something like that. It works like a charm.

+1

The Motive I used to have worked great. Easy and fast. I sure miss that thing. I need to get another one. It was lost in one of my moves when I was in the Air Force.

here's a diy brake bleeder writeup, excellent if you ask me: http://faculty.ccp.edu/faculty/dreed/campingart/jettatech/bleeder/index.htm

i have a motive bb with adapters for my mercedes and my toyota truck. it works well but pricey as compared to the above plans. had i known, i would've built the above

I have the Motive bleeder, work good. had the cap for the MB, and a universal one with two chains that wrap around the MC to clamp it down. used that for the Datsun w/o any problems.

thanks for that web site. I wanted to make a cap for the Datsun, went around to the auto supplies for some fittings w/o any luck. talking to these doofuses is like a deer in the headlights.

the Motives are a little pricy, looking at their web site, there are some pricier than mine.

Charlie

I use a $10 pesticide sprayer connected to a old brake cap with a barb fitting screwed into it.