Air can often get sucked in around the threads of the bleeder screws. A little bit of grease on the threads can help with that. I really prefer to use a pressure bleeder or the gravity-pump method over the vacuum bleeders. With the master cylinder and reservoir up so high I find the system will almost self-bleed if you just give it time. Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Bryan Feddish Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 11:26 AM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Brake bleeding problems I have purchased 2 power bleeding devices and I still cannot get this brake bleeding thing down. No matter what I do I never get just fluid out of the bleeder valve, there is always lots of air. I assumed that the connectors were allowing air to escape on the sides so I even tried different size hoses to attach to the bleeder valve. Still no use, its always about 50% air coming out and never stops. Suggestions appreciated. (BTW, not sure why but my posts have been taking a long time to propagate back out from the server...) Thanks, Bryan |
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