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Re: Power Bleeder

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Subject: Re: Power Bleeder
From: Richard Beels <beels@technologist.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 21:14:02 -0400
It's great.  It's much better to use the pressure at the master cylinder 
end than use a MityVac and suck from the caliper end.  And I have an 
Eezibleed as well but it's been collecting dust since I made my own version 
of the Motive less than 1/2 the price and 15 minutes of time.

1/2 gallon garden sprayer ($10), MC cap from the u-pull-it ($1), some clear 
tubing I had laying around, a couple hose clamps I had laying around and a 
couple tire valves ($1.50).

Drill a hole in the MC cap specified by the tire valve and pull the tire 
valve through - I used the extra long necked ones to get maximum overlap 
with the tubing.  Drill a hole in the garden sprayer near the top and do 
the same.  Some people have put a pressure gauge in theirs but I figured it 
was overkill (since I didn't have one on hand and would have to find one 
and buy it) so I put a valve in there and just figured out how many pumps 
on the sprayer gave me 12 pounds.  Then, just cut the nozzle end off the 
sprayer, slip a couple clamps on the hose, slip the hose over the ends and 
clamp it down.  Use enough hose so you can set the sprayer on the ground or 
someplace stable so it won't tip over.  The Crapsman sprayer had a nifty 
on-off grip trigger on the wand so you can charge the sprayer and measure 
the pressure.

I've had this for over a year now and it's worked great.  One little 
improvement I'm going to make when I find tubing small enough is to epoxy a 
piece of tubing in the MC cap to siphon fluid back into the bleeder so the 
MC isn't overfilled.




At 06/27/2003 at 19:36, Shakespearean monkeys danced on Diane and Roland 
Dudley's keyboard and said:

>I'm wondering what the consensus is on the Motive Products Power
>Bleeder.
>
>      www.MotiveProducts.com


Cheers!

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