How to bleed brakes using the " One person " method

One person brake bleeding method air lock

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Autos & Vehicles

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• air
• in
• line
• bleed
• brake
• one
• person
• bleeding
• method

[x34460]

thank you for a great tutorial.

an effective method with almost no cost involved.

THANKS!

[backyardmech]

@x34460 No problem X34460. That's the great thing about this method; all you need is a clear plastic bottle, a tie-rap, and a piece of tubing.

[boodoo76]

great idea

[backyardmech]

@boodoo76 Thanks, it is a great method Boodoo - I didn't invent it, but I do it a lot.

[TheHortond]

If you elevated the bottle above the bleeder valve then the air bubbles would float up and there would be less chance of them getting sucked back into the system. The rest of your technic is perfect and will work for bleeding or changing the fluid all together. Good job.

[tigertruckerman]

your the man .

[LiarNoseOnFire]

What a load of unnecessarily complicated work,,,,!!!

If you need to bleed your Brake System, go out and get a Gunsuns Eezibleed Kit,,,,!!!

If your local mechanic/DIY/Parts Workshop doesn't stock this, send for one on-line from UK,,,,!!!

Cheap, Easy to use, Comes with various Brake Fluid Reservoir screw caps for different cars,,,,!!!

Simply fill up the Bottle provided with new Fluid, connect the other pipe provided with the kit to your spare wheel and simply go round each wheel in turn,,,,!!!

[kind1st]

Do I leave the cap off the master cylinder while doing this? 

[backyardmech]

@ricebike True enough Ricebike - if you want to get rid of all the old fluid, this is the way to go.

[ricebike]

@backyardmech

yea, but you'll still have to evacuate the old fluid out of the bleeders... water collects down there & the fastest way to get rid of that plus some crud that settles is to do it this way... or risk having a bad caliper or wheel cylinder down the road

[backyardmech]

@DVeck89 Sounds to me like you have a bad brake caliper DVeck. I have a video called "How to find out if you have a sticking caliper or bad flex hose". You may want to watch that. The problem in that video was a bad flex hose.