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Subject:Re: Power bleeder (brakes/clutch) opinions
From:Tim Demarest
Date:Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:31:11 -0400

Power bleeder seems like overkill to me, I've had great success with a
hand-operated mity-vac bleeder kit (09820 kit shown here)
http://www.mityvac.com/pages/products_hvpk.asp#06820.

You've got to pump a while for the longer lines, but it gets the job done.

Tim

At 01:11 PM 9/15/2006 -0400, neil wrote:
>Hi all.
>
>Am slowly getting to point of setting wheels of van on
>ground. Seems one thing after another. Am replacing a
>steel brake line so....
>
>Found a little info re: power bleeders in archives,
>and gleened enough to see how they work.
>
>I'm a one man band here bleeding brakes on my own.
>
>I'm willing to pop $ for power bleeder (looks like
>plastice pesticide spray can).
>
>Are these useful and reliable? Any opinions will help.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Neil Nicholson.
>1981 Air Cooled Westfalia.
>
>http://web.mac.com/tubaneil
>
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