Speed Bleeders
Drifting
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So if you connect the hose on one end and immerse it on the other, can you suck up old, expelled fluid from the jar? Unless you do the "Open, Down, Close, Up" routine. That is.
Last edited by aklim; Nov 18, 2020 at 07:28 PM.
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Burning Brakes
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Drifting
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Still faster and easier to use a speed bleeder or a power bleeder tho.
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Wait...WHUT? That's right, you can open a bleeder or several and pump the pedal by yourself (no helper). Yes you'll draw some air back into the caliper on each pedal release, but over all, it's a net gain and you're moving fluid from the res, down and out the calipers....fast. When you're done pumping, there will be some air drawn into the calipers on your last pedal release...that's O.K. Wait about 20 second or so and the caliper will have filled and be bled out. Easy.
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Last edited by Tom400CFI; Nov 18, 2020 at 08:04 PM.
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1. I'm starting with a completely empty system. Pumping will fill and bleed the whole system from the res to the caliper in seconds.
2. If I'm dealing with an older/crudded up brake system (mostly the trucks at work), often times one or more calipers won't gravity bleed....or they WILL, but they flow super slow. That is typically b/c of some smeg in a line, hose, port, somewhere. In that case, I close all the bleeders but the slow flowing one, then pump the pedal a couple times. This blasts whatever smeg is slowing things down right on through and typically I get great flow after that.
....then I finish off by Gravity letting that caliper fill/bleed -which usually only takes seconds, and then that one is done.
Drifting
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But if I were doing it constantly? Or a shop that just has it on tap? Yeah probably. For now, I've got speed bleeders on, they do what they say on the tin and haven't leaked. YMMV.
