In a message dated 4/21/2001 10:40:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
gjbranch@mediaone.net writes:
> Yeah, probably, but the problem with the mini is that the reservoir holds
> about
> a mouthful. So just when you're getting all the air out, you run out of
> fluid
> in the reservoir and are back to ground zero. So my plan is to fill a quart
> mason jar,
Geoff:
A mouthful? Now that is an interesting way to pressurize a bleed! You
could get a good mouthful of brake fluid, put a long tube in your mouth, and
move around the car bleeding each wheel all the while forcing fluid into the
MC from your mouth. <G>
Seriously, I think I would use a Rubbermaid plastic bottle. I think the
brake fluid level could be seen through the opaque plastic, and the lid fits
good. There is a slight safety factor there in that I get nervous when I go
to pressurizing glass jars, even Mason jars that are made to withstand
negative pressures of canning--not sure about positive pressures inside, even
though the pressure will be low. MY luck and experience, coupled with
Murphy's Law, are that once I am farthest away from the jar, on my back,
unscrewing the bleeder, the damned JAR will find some way to wallow, wiggle,
or jump onto the concrete floor.
Someone, a couple of years ago, posted a homemade Ezi-Bleed. It used the
rubbermaid jar with a tire filler valve pressed into a hole in the top of the
jar to pressurize the contents and a tube through an sealed hole in the top
to the bottom of the jar to pick up the fluid. The other end was fitted
(sealed) to a MC top. I may have a copy of that somewhere in my Black Hole
of filing. Or if the poster is listening, how about reposting it?
--David C.
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