I purchased a toledo vacuum bleeder a few months ago ... as I have an old car with 4 wheel non-assisted drums here .... It would suck from the reseviour. So I'm thinking I need to pull the master down and see what is going on. I don't do a lot of bleeding, and when I have I've just got someone to pump the pedal for me in the past. All of my cars for the last 30years .... this is how I've bled them.
You just open the bleeder .... hold the the pedal down for a bit. I pushed on the brake pedal a few times in this car as it has an ABS module, and I'm not sure if that will bleed properly. I did use the vacuum bleeder as it has a nice connector bit for the bleed nipple. I didn't apply any vacuum The cars here have fully powered brakes. So all I do is hold the pedal down ... and the air is pushed out then the fluid. The hydraulic fluid is green, you can see it flowing down the line and the line bouncing each time I touch the brake pedal. I bled about a cup full of fluid into the bleeder. To do the rear brakes I just run a long line from the bleeder back to the hydraulic reseviour .... and can't just hold the pedal down as long as I like to bleed fluid through.
this is how I'm used to doing brakes .... I'll try the vacuum bleeder on the range rover this weekend and see if I can get it to work (failing that, I'll get one of my kids to pump the pedal for me ).
Proper cars--
'92 Range Rover 3.8V8 ... 5spd manual
'85 Series II CX2500 GTi Turbo I :burnrubber:
'63 ID19 x 2 :wheelchair:
'72 DS21 ie 5spd pallas
Modern Junk:
'07 Poogoe 407 HDi 6spd manual :zzz:
'11 Poogoe RCZ HDI 6spd manual
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