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Subject:Review on DIY $20 Pressure Bleeder
From:Michael Sullivan
Date:Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:00:19 -0500

OK...Had my order ready for the Motive Euro bleeder last week.  It's not the
price that stopped me, but the shipping time.  So I looked at the previously
posted homemade one.  I had a few minutes last Thursday, so I made one.  I
gotta say thathe instructions were fool-proof(trust me).  I bought a
generice  gallon psprayer at Lowes and the rest of the parts #s were exactly
available. Took 30 min to get parts and one hour(busted a nuckle and had to
cry/drink a beer) but turned out great.  Holds pressure all day and releases
easy.  Did not have a back-up oil res cap, so used a Poulan leaf blower cap
instead.  Seems I can now just add a beetle cap, Mazda p, whatever and I'm
good for whatever.  Haven't bled them yet, but will in the next day or so.
Just wanna put out the kudos cuz I cannot find the orignal poster and due to
my upload options I cannot load the link to the .pdf.  I am sure others have
this link available.
Michael in San Antonio
91GL AT 'Gringo'
73 Beetle