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Mnn asbestos - nasty stuff.
On the subject of air bleeders - I went to purchase one of these when doing the brakes on another project but they seemed very expensive for what amounted to a plastic bottle with an airline (yours may be different) - the ones I saw were certainly not 180 dollars worth!!
In the end I found a hand operated vacuum brake bleeder - obviously a little more effort than the air powered version, but it does come with a a vacuum gauge and can also be used for testing things such as the vacuum advance on the distributor - I paid about 70 bucks for it - well worth it in my books - also you can instantly see if you have problems such as swollen / restrictive hoses as the vacuum gauge goes off the scale and no brake fluid comes through.
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And yet another method is to reverse bleed. I have never used this on brakes, but have on the 110 clutch when it was immobile on a downhill slope. Simply a syringe as used for filling diffs etc, but filled with brake fluid (if it is one you have used for that be very sure it is scrupulously clean first, degreased, washed, flushed with metho - better to use a new one).
John
