Thanks for the infor Barney and Bob.
Larry Hoy
1969 MGB Roadster
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On Tue, 07 Jan 1997 08:17:17 +0000 Robert Allen <boballen@sky.net>
writes:
>Barney Gaylord wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 07 Jan 1997 00:36:54 EST larryhoy@juno.com (Larry A Hoy)
>writes:
>>
>> > ..... We've made it 25 years without the Mighty Vac, but what
>about the next 25 years
>>
>> Get a Gunson's Eezi-bleed. Works great on an A.
>>
>> Barney Gaylord
>> 1958 MGA
>
>Oh shoot. I hate to disagree with anyone anymore. But...
>
>I own both: The Might Vac and the Ezi-bleed. If you wanna stop by the
>house I'll give you the Ezi-bleed.
>
>The Mighty-Vac is a handheld, manual, vaccuum pump. It comes with a
>resivour and two pieces of hose and will suck anything that has a
>nipple the hose will fit over. You hook it up to the bleed-screw on a
>caliber, twist open the bleed screw, crank on the handle, and it sucks
out
>hydralic fluid (brakes or clutch slave cylinder). If you screw up and
>make a mess, it only piddles on the floor. It works great.
>
>The Ezi-bleed is a pressurized brake bleeder. It has a variety of caps
>that fit over master cylinders (brake or clutch). The caps have a tube
>that goes over to a pretty good size resvior of hydralic fluid. You
>pressurize this bottle with a supplied connector to a source -- like
>the left front tire.
>
>My problem (and opinion) is that the components to the Ezi-Bleed
>aren't that hot and its easy to get a leak. Leaks in this case are in
your
>engine compartment, under the master cylinder, and dribbles on your
>fender. I've had leaks in the cap/master cylinder and the tube that
>goes to the cap. I was really, really, really frustrated with the
>Ezi-bleed. When it worked, it worked perfect.
>
>The Mighty-Vac requires several sucky-sucky/refill MC cycles before
>the brake/clutch system is flushed but it is much less error-prone and
>messy.
>
>I've seen both systems in the VB catalog and I've seen Mighty-Vac on
>the shelves of good auto parts houses. The Mighty-Vac is going big time
>with attachments for doing other things -- like cylinder leak-down
tests.
>
>FWIW IMHO YMMV
>
>Bob Allen, Kansas City, '69CGT, '75TR6
>
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