Date:         Wed, 26 May 1999 07:25:21 -0400
Reply-To:     EMZ <vw4x4@FYI.NET>
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From:         EMZ <vw4x4@FYI.NET>
Subject:      Re: brake bleeding
Comments: To: Karl Mullendore <thewestyman@MINDSPRING.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <00c701bea730$b52f5740$bfb81004@karlmull>
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   Karl,
     Great idea. Let me add one small detail. For anyone using a
garden sprayer that they already have, make sure it is completetly
dry and clean inside. For its content may end up inside your master
cylinder.

            Eric                   86-VW4x4
            vw4x4@fyi.net          72-240z
            Pittsburgh, PA USA     1936-Chrysler


On Wed, 26 May 1999, Karl Mullendore wrote:

> I've tried all the ways to bleed brakes and clutch cyls. in my 18 years in
> the business, and here is, by far, the easiest way to do it (and the way
> I've done it for the past 7~8 years!) :
>
> Way-cheap and long-lasting pressure bleeder: Total cost around $15~20 !
>
> Go to your local gardening store, Lowes, etc., and purchase one of the small
> one-gallon hand-pump sprayers intended to be used as a garden insecticide
> sprayer. Also pick up a brake fluid reservoir cap from either an early
> Vanagon or Rabbit (the plain one without a level sensor), and a hose
> fitting, the correct size for the sprayer's hose. Drill a hole in the cap,
> screw in the fitting, attach the hose. Now fill the container about half
> full with fresh brakefluid. When you are ready to use it, screw the cap in
> place of the original cap, pump the handle about 20 times to build pressure.
> (I usually set the pump on the lower rim of the steering wheel) Then all you
> have to do is go to each bleeder valve, open it and watch the old flow out
> as the new goes in. No more helper needed! Works great on those odd things
> that won't bleed any other way, and you are guaranteed an air-free job. If
> anyone needs a visual of what it should look like, I'll be glad to send a
> digital pic.
>
> Karl
> '87 Westy Syncro TD
>