Suspension TECH Including Brakes, Wheels and tires

          
 
 
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Old 09-02-2004, 03:46 PM
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Frustrated at bleeding the T/A brakes, I stole a page from Car Craft. They made a fancy pressure bleeder from 1/4" steel and stiff rubber with a air fitting tapped and screwed into it. I figured the same could be done with a stock cover, and weld a fitting to it.

I wound up using two cover gaskets as the big (front chamber) tended to leak initially. After fitting it with a second rubber gasket, it only leaked a tiny amount.

I use clean dry air at 10 PSI as a source fitted to some old air fittings I won't use.

You can go down to the individual wheels rig up a container and clear tubing, crack the bleeder and watch the brakes bleed themselves.

I gotta say, this is one of the coolest things I've used so far. The only trick is to keep the reservoir filled as you will fill the typical "one man brake bleeder" container in about 30 seconds.
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