Thread: Brake bleeder
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Old 11-06-2018, 05:50 PM   #5
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Default Re: Brake bleeder

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Originally Posted by nhramnl View Post
Pustelny taught me how to bleed brakes years ago, and I've never used another method since. Fill the system and open the bleeders. Once they're open, just keep checking and adding to the master cylinder reservoir. Let the system gravity-bleed for an hour or so, then close the bleeders, starting with the one furthest away from the master cylinder. You'll already have a decent pedal, so then have a helper put one slow pump on the pedal while you open the farthest away bleeder (you use one slow pump to avoid aerating the fluid). Then use the one slow pump technique and work your way from the right rear, to the left rear, right front, and left front, (don't let the master cylinder reservoir go empty) and your brakes will be bled.

Same here. Street car, race car, never pump, just a push with the bleeder open, or you aerate the fluid. I will use a Mity-vac on an empty/new system to get it mostly filled, then go to the one push method to finish.
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