[MR2] Pressure bleeding ...

[Donald Chalfant]

I do use the reservoir and it is absolutely vunderbar.  If you want, you can 
fill the reservoir (after evacuating the old super nasty crap from the MC) 
with a store brand fluid and flush until the system is cleaner than 
Liberace's smile and then switch to that expensive Ford Blue (after 
evacuating the MC reservoir again with the Griot's Garage ONE MAN hydraulic 
bleeding kit with a two.something  gallon storage capacity).  I find it 
somewhat amusing that the relatively expensive initial cost scares so many 
otherwise knowledgeable people who keep on expending precious and 
irreplaceable parts of their live trying to "make do". 8)
And are these people who would blow $30 on a new CD and a fast food supper? 
Alas, probably so.
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 Subject: Re: [MR2] Pressure bleeding ...


>I use the one that people here keep recommending from Griots Garage
> http://www.griotsgarage.com/product/car+maintenance/oil+changes/brake+fluid+extractor.do?search=basic&keyword=brake+bleeder&sortby=newArrivals&page=1
>
> It does come with a reservoir to put in the master cylinder but I haven't
> ever used that part. I just use the suction tank and stop it before the
> fluid gets low, add more fluid and keep doing that process. Or you can 
> have
> someone else poor fluid in the MC as you suck it out. But that defeats the
> purpose if you're going for a a one-man-job.
>
> -wayne
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:29:06 -0600, "Arvid Jedlicka" <arvidj at visi.com>
> wrote:
>> For those that have mentioned pressure bleeders for the brakes ...
>>
>> What are you using on the master cylinder? I have several pressure
>> bleeders and none of them come with a cap that will work on the '93 MR2.
>> The master cylinder does not have a robust threaded cap and the "chains,
>> hooks and seal" style does not fit on the top of the master cylinder very
>> easily at all.
>>
>> I have tried several vacuum bleeders and the one from Harbor Freight
>> [http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=92924]
>> seems to work the best. I have not tried the one that Donald recommends
> but
>> even if it generates a perfect vacuum it will only provide 14.7 psi at
> the
>> master cylinder, which does not seem to be enough. I will add that even
> the
>> HF version only works at a level that I would rate as "barely adequate".
>>
>> Arvid
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