Tried a new way to bleed brakes!

[Tripper]

I hate bleeding brakes so I started looking at different ways to do the dirty deed & found one that worked really well!

I filled the bowls up & used a big syringe I had laying around for giving farm animals medicine! I put a self bleeding catchment container on the wheel bleeder, opened the bleeder up, filled the syringe up & squirted it down the hole in each bowl 4 times making sure fluid was going through the lines & coming out, then moved to the next closest wheel. This did the trick fast & easy. One person job & now I have a hard pedal & great brakes! Mrs Tripper had always been my partner in crime & she has happy she got to skip all that this time!

I don't know if any of you have used this method & maybe I'm late to the game but I was happy & pretty impressed!

BoB

 

[earthman]

I'm going to try it

 

[lowbudget50]

I have done it this way with mixed results. When it works it's great!!

 

[redidbull]

I was having a tough time bleeding my Wife’s Mustang brakes and brought it to the local shop. They had a system where they replaced the master cylinder cap with one that has an air fitting. Same principal you are using. I will try that next time. I have a Harbor Freight self bleeder that works about 75% of the time. Our Suzuki Samurai has a “pocket” in the rear line near the prop valve and even doing it the old pump brake method doesn’t always work. The HF works and I would bet your way would too. Jim

 

[Old Iron]

I've been doing the syringe deal for a several years to bleed the master cylinder but, I wasn't opening the wheel bleeders to get those bled too.

 

[Tripper]

I was having a tough time bleeding my Wife’s Mustang brakes and brought it to the local shop. They had a system where they replaced the master cylinder cap with one that has an air fitting. Same principal you are using. I will try that next time. I have a Harbor Freight self bleeder that works about 75% of the time. Our Suzuki Samurai has a “pocket” in the rear line near the prop valve and even doing it the old pump brake method doesn’t always work. The HF works and I would bet your way would too. Jim

I used a HF self bleeder for this!

BoB

 

[Bamamav]

I've gravity bled several. Works best if you raise the master cylinder end of the car up higher than the back. Open the right rear bleeder and wait until you get a solid stream, close and go to left rear, repeat, then right front then left front. Sometimes you still need to do the pump method if they still feel spongy.

 

[redidbull]

I've gravity bled several. Works best if you raise the master cylinder end of the car up higher than the back. Open the right rear bleeder and wait until you get a solid stream, close and go to left rear, repeat, then right front then left front. Sometimes you still need to do the pump method if they still feel spongy.

I have done this a couple times too. I figured it would at least give it a good start to a normal bleed. Jim