Speed Bleeders Pros and Cons????

I bought my speed bleeders at Auto Zone.

 

Thanks alot Don....I still intend to have ***istance while bleeding. You all would have gotten a kick out of my wife when she asked why I wanted to buy specail bleeders. She said "Dont I do a good enough job?". I'm sure you have all been there with that person bleeding the brakes who doesnt understand the definition of "a full pedal" or "as soon as its all the way to the floor". This could be a relationship saver!

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They work great, I use them on my cars. You can get them from Godman Hi Performance, www.godmanhiperformance.com, 1-800-456-2369. They have 10 sizes listed in their catalog. I would ask for a catalog it's great!

 

They sell the popular sizes at most auto parts stores. Again, possibly the easiest way to bleed brakes ever.

 

They are great, I added them to all the bleeding points for the clutch and brakes on the linked braking system of my ST1300 Honda motorcycle.

A hose off the speed bleeder and the hose inserted into a snug hole drilled into the top of a 20 ounce (600 ml) coke bottle makes bleeding really easy by yourself.

No pumping and closing the bleeders quickly.

Thanks for reminding me to pick some up for the RPU.

 

How does this work with no pumping? Is the Coke bottle supposed to work as a suction device.

 

Oh and I just picked up a set of 2 from Autozone for $10 and I also checked my 9" which according to the numbers is from a 69 Torino uses the same size bleeders as my 99 Exploder calipers that I'm putting on the front. Dorman/Help part no.12701 thread size 3/8 24.

 

No it is simply there to catch the clean fluid so it doesn't go all over the floor. But if you put the end of the rubber hose into a couple of inches of fluid in the bottle you can see when the bubbles of air stop coming and you know it is ok to quit.

Since there seems to be some confusion as to how these work, here is the procedure:

1) Install the Speed Bleeders in each wheel cylinder and tighten down until they seat. They are a one way check valve and if you only loosen them a little they will let fluid out but not let air back into the system when you release the pedal.

2) Make sure the MC is full of fluid.

3) Put a piece of tight fitting rubber hose onto the first bleeder ******(about a foot or so long) and if you don't want to make a mess on your floor put the end of it into a bottle with a few inches of clean fluid in it. Small vacuum hose seems about right. Make sure the end of the hose is submerged completely.

4) Loosen the bleeder about a half turn or so and start pushing the brake pedal down slowly and then letting it come back up. Repeat that until no more bubbles are coming out of the hose. Make sure you keep adding fluid to the MC so it doesn't run dry, if it does you have to start over again.

5) Tighten that bleeder down and move to the next wheel and repeat all the above steps until all 4 are done. If you want to be totally sure, you can go back to wheel number one and go through the entire process a second time, but it usually isn't necessary.

As the bottle starts getting full you can dump some back into the MC, that way none is wasted.

Don

 

That's it exactly. Thanks Don, you beat me to it. Peeling the label off the bottle allows you to see the fluid and hose to see when the bubbles stop.

 

best thing since slice bread,if the hose on the bleeder is long enough you can watch it from the cab as you pump the brake like i do.

 

Ok thats what I thought, but Blue One threw in a little confusion...LOL...that sounded a little more like the compressed air bleeder we used on my dad's 56 (which didn't work worth a damn...probably user error).

Thanks again!

 

i have one speed bleeder i use, i made up a br*** piece with a barb on the end i screw the speed bleeder into, i install a short maybe 1" piece of hose from the normal bleeder to my speed bleeder, then another piece of hose into a container, now i open the normal bleeder and pump my brakes as if i had a speed bleeder installed, why do i only have one speed bleeder, i did have four installed but didn't think to put rubber caps over the ends and all but one speed bleeder rusted inside and seized up, couldn't even use them as normal bleed screws, so now with my little setup i don't need to buy speed bleeders for every vehicle and i get the same results.