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- From: Peter.Hammond@brunel.ac.uk (Peter D Hammond)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Recommendations for one-man brake bleeding tools?
- Message-ID: <BxM42v.ACJ@brunel.ac.uk>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 16:49:41 GMT
- References: <1992Nov11.195755.12301@cbnewsh.cb.att.com>
- Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
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- f.w.kerfoot..iii (fwk@cbnewsh.cb.att.com) wrote:
- {Description of home-made pressure bleeding kit deleted}
- :
- : Many variations are possible. If you can't get a spare reservoir cap,
- : you could fabricate a sheet metal plate and a rubber gasket (old
- : inner tube) with a tire valve in it, and clamp it to the top of the
- {More stuff deleted}
-
- Or you could buy one. Gunson's make the Eze-bleed (I think that's spelt
- the appropriate incorrect way;-), which is pretty much what Frank described,
- except that it's pressurised by the spare wheel. It has a bottle of fluid in
- the line to prevent the reservoir running dry. I think they are brilliant;
- bleeding is just like turning on a tap (as long as the `tap' isn't siezed
- up, of course). Caveat: I know one person who totally deflated his spare tyre
- on one, and then got a flat on his way to the garage to pump it up, but I
- would like to know how as I have never used anything like that much air. Also,
- I know quite a few people who prefer the vacuum type (made at home from a
- medical syringe).
-
- : Have fun-
- :
- : Frank Kerfoot
- : fwk@hogpa.att.com
-
- --
- BFN, Pete.
-
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