Well that makes little sense...mandating that brake fluids all  be clear or
amber...Too bad, that was a handy way to tell if your brake fluid was
completely bled.
   I normally don't put fluid into my Motive pressure bleeder either if I
am just bleeding a wheel or the clutch but since I was  losing fluid and I
was working solo, I figured I didn't want to chance pumping air into the
system, so I put some fluid in the pressure bottle.

   Just last night I found that sometime during changing the slave cylinder
I must have lost connectivity ito my O2 sensor...On my Inline VW motor the
O2 sensor wire is right there next to the clutch linkage, and mine has a
spliced connector.   I just noticed my fuel consumption was increasing and
my coolant temperature is now lower than normal, indicating a very rich
mixture since my slave cylinder change......
  Gotta crawl back under and check the wire to the sensor...

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 5:11 AM, Steven Shelton <shelton4@gmail.com> wrote:

> I never put brake fluid in my Motive bleeder.  I just figured it was messy
> and a waste of fluid.  Air pressure is enough to bleed the brakes.  Of
> course, you have to keep a close eye on the fluid level in reservoir.
>
> Apparently ATE Super Blue was determined to be noncompliant with Federal
> Motor Vehicle Safety Standards because of its color.  For example see the
> notice here: http://www.ogracing.com/ate-super-blue-brake-fluid.  I had
> the
> idea to use ATE Blue a few years ago but saw somewhere that it was illegal
> in Florida because it is much more prone to absorb moisture.
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 12:05 AM, Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >   Yes, I learned another lesson with this episode...
> >
> >    Lesson One is to check the hoses used in my brake bleeding
> > equipment...it seems that brake fluid does a job on most of the tubing
> that
> > comes with these 'tools'
> >
> >    The reason I pumped that much pressure into my system is that it was
> > losing pressure quickly... and I was working alone...so by the time I
> could
> > get out of the van and crawl under to check for leakage, the pressure
> > bottle was losing all pressure at a lower PSI....I should have found a
> > helper to keep pumping the pressure bottle but I'm quite rural and my
> S.O.
> > was not around...
> >
> >    The Motive pressure bleeding system has a 'feed hose' inside the
> > reservoir so that it fills the vehicle's brake reservoir through the hose
> > to a cap that you screw on in place of the standard reservoir cap...This
> is
> > to prevent running  dry of fluid during the bleeding process and forcing
> > air throughout the system...When finished with the pressure bleeding
> > process, you must carefully unscrew the Motive cap (because the vehicle
> > reservoir is brim-full of fluid) and use a turkey baster or some suction
> > device to lower the level in the reservoir to the marked "Max" level...
> >    When that  hose between the Motive pressure bottle and the vehicle
> > reservoir let loose....it became, in essence, a weed-sprayer, but with
> > brake fluid....and I had just put a large bottle of fluid into the
> > Motive...that blew all over the inside of the van and everything in
> > it...Not at all pretty/
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@hotmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > You pumped a brake pressure bleeder up to 20 psi? So what part of the
> > reservoir and connecting system was designed for pressure? Watching the
> > reservoir tank swell at 2 or 3 psi tells me to stop. This should not be
> > necessary to do the job. Things on the pressure side operate at much
> higher
> > pressures so this is not even a good method for lea testing.
> >
> > Dennis
> >
>