El-Cheapo One Man Pressure Brake Bleeding Kit!

**travelrover** · 24th August 2017, 02:16 PM

Hi all. Reviving this older thread.

I recently bought a cheap one man bleed kit off ebay, about $20, not the cheapest by any means. It was the type that uses compress air from a tyre, (under 20 psi) runs through a fluid container with an isolating valve connected to the screw cap on the brake reservoirso it all sounded pretty simple.

First problem was the valve mounted in the top of the fluid container could not be adjusted far enough to completely turn off the air from the tyre so was always pressurized. fixed this by winding the valve open and fitting a fuel cock (from a lawn mower) into the air line. All appeared to work fine. I could turn the air completely off and on at a measured rate (slowly).

So I put some new brake fluid in the container and connected the outlet end to the screw cap with the correct sized seal in the cap (1/8th of a turn past the initial contact grab per the instructions) and the air line to the tyre @15psi.

Very slowly turned on the air and straight away I had fluid leaking from around the cap on the reservoir. I tightened it a little more and tried again, but still it leaked.

So this one will be going into the parts pile.

I am guessing there a lot more on the market now than when this thread was first active. Can anyone recommend a suitable one man unit? Reasonably cheap..

**whitehillbilly64** · 24th August 2017, 04:49 PM

I use one of these from Repco.
find it ok.
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whitehillbilly

**Chops** · 25th August 2017, 05:30 AM

The other week, Chris and i used an old cap with a car valve in it, and whist i was underneath the car, Chris pumped it with a bike tyre pump. Worked well, although he did get sore arms. Using the air compressor woudn have been a lot better, but it was late at night.
Worked very well indeed, there was a lot of air in the line, we went through over half a bottle of fluid to them right.

**gromit** · 25th August 2017, 05:47 AM

I use one of the kids to pump the pedal but they certainly aren't cheap !

Somewhere I have an old Gunson's one man bleeder I used years back in the UK. The plastic has probably cracked/degraded by now. Came with a variety of caps to fit different master cylinders

Looks like its changed a bit since I got mine but still available
Gunson Eezibleed

Colin