[MR2] Pressure bleeding ...

[Chris S]

Considering that is only about 2x the cost of a mityvac and has MUCH more 
capacity and a resevoir..i'd call it a steal.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donald Chalfant" <dkchal at datasync.com>
To: <waynearndt at waynearndt.com>; "Arvid Jedlicka" <arvidj at visi.com>
Cc: <mr2-interest at mr2.com>
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: [MR2] Pressure bleeding ...


>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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