one man brake bleeding

[muddysteve]

can anyone recomend a brake bleeding kit for use on my rangie?

need to be able to do it by myself so some sort of pressure bleeding kit would be good


Steve

[Rangie3.0LtrDan]

I found the eezibleed kit from halfrauds £15 excellent, i did me brakes with it and it was faultless!

[muddysteve]

cool i like that price  :D

how does it work? is it easy to use?

Steve

[Rangie3.0LtrDan]

basically it used air from your spare tyre to send fluid through the system and that means you just go round and undo all your bleed screws one at a time furthest from the master cylinder and wait for fluid, do em up, move onto next one lol

its very very simple and very re-usable

[thumbs]

i use a milk bottle with a piece of pipe from bleed nipple in waste fluid in bottle, pipe has to be submerged, undo bleed nipple, pump pedel till clear fluid comeing through, do nipple back up, easy!

and it dont cost £15  :shock:

[Rangie3.0LtrDan]

LOL but he is doing it alone, how do you know if fluid is coming through if pumping the pedal? lol

[defenderdan]

Eezibleed works well for me, you need to let some air out of you spare tyre first though, it needs to be below 20 psi.

[Stormin]

I'm also an Eezibleeder.  :shock:  Had mine something like 35 years. Can't remember what it cost, not £15, but certainly good value for money. :D

[hobbit]

For a quid you can buy a bleed pipe with a one way valve in it, pop it on to the bleed nipple, crack it, pump and nip back up, you can if you like put the pipe into a bottle to catch the fluid, but the one way valves stops it coming back out

The thing is you should be able to get someone to pump the pedal, even if its a kid

[tenpolequint]

LOL but he is doing it alone, how do you know if fluid is coming through if pumping the pedal? lol

I get the wife to do the pedal pushing.

[Bulli]

mighty-vac simply the best. Not cheap. You will struggle to get brake fluid flowing through small bore braided pipe without one.
You dont even need to pump the pedal! Simply squeeze the handle and it pulls the fluid through. Bought mine for bikes but took me about 15 mins to do when i changed to braided lines on the disco..about 40-50 quid but worth it if you do quite a bit. If you were nearer i would lend you it!

[muddysteve]

well i've got myslf an eezibleed kit and the new caliper pistons and seals


wish me luck


Steve

[V8MoneyPit]

I've never had any problem with the Land Rover manual method. Jar with clean fluid on the ground with a tube submerged from the bleed screw. Undo the screw. Push the pedal to the floor and pause for a couple of seconds and release. Pause a couple of seconds and push to the floor again.... and so on. The pause between strokes seem to be critical. Just pumping the pedal takes a lot more fluid. Just do this a few times for each corner and your done. Works first time, every time for me.

[beast5680]

I found the eezibleed kit from halfrauds £15 excellent, i did me brakes with it and it was faultless!

I have just done mine this very lunch time with one of them :D

[Rangie3.0LtrDan]

And how easy was it Beast?

[beast5680]

well i've got myslf an eezibleed kit and the new caliper pistons and seals


wish me luck


Steve

ah that,ll be the job i just done on my disco i find it easier not to take the metal ring out for the scraper seal as they are an absolute pig to fit new ones, i just hook the seal out and fit the new one in its place

[muddysteve]

woohoo  :D

job done, the dust seals were a PITA but went in in the end,

as for the eezibleed, how have i managed without one for all this time, once it was all set up took all of 30 seconds to bleed the calliper out and the brakes are now spot on  :D

and as a plus now theyre not binding it goes better too


Steve

[muddyjames]

woohoo  :D

job done, the dust seals were a PITA but went in in the end,

as for the eezibleed, how have i managed without one for all this time, once it was all set up took all of 30 seconds to bleed the calliper out and the brakes are now spot on  :D

and as a plus now theyre not binding it goes better too


Steve

And I went all the way over to you coz you thought you were going to have trouble! It was a GREAT gadget though. Remember to pump your spare back up though!

It gave us time to do my oil leek that I need to check and tow my bumper out straight too!