[MR2] Pressure bleeding ...

[waynearndt at waynearndt.com]

I'm going to start calling Don the Dave Ramsey of car care :)    He's so
right about people's spending habits. I have to admit though that I'm the
opposite of his example. I still have NIB speed bleeders, stainless brake
lines and stainless exhaust system w/downpipe; none of which I have taken
the time to install. I could have eaten a lot of fast food with that money
but all these mods and upkeep make my friends think I'm cool...well, ok,
not really. Funny thing about priorities, how many of us won't blow money
on new clothes but have expensive tools that we've never (yet) used. :~)

I use turkey baster to suck up the old junk out of the MC resevoir. That
way only clean fluid ever touches the rest of your equipment.






On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:37:47 -0500, "Donald Chalfant" <dkchal at datasync.com>
wrote:
> 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.
> -----
>  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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