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Old Jan 5, 2006 | 08:14 AM
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Brake Bleeding Pump...

Anyone have experience with the brake bleeding systems? Such as these http://search.ebay.com/bleeding-brak...Z1QQsacatZ6028

I will be doing a brake job much sooner than desired. I wont always have extra feet around to pump the brakes, and this method would nice if these product do work. Especially in case I end up working late into the night, it would be hard to wake my sibling out of there deep sleep, just to come pump the brakes for me.

Also if they are decent, are they sold in local stores also? Passenger side brake is dragging and cutting up my rotor. Family wont be home to help when I get home.

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Old Jan 5, 2006 | 08:15 AM
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Yup, the Mityvac is what I use. I love it. It works very well, and is frankly the only true "one-man bleeder" I've used that's available at stores.

Autozone usually sells the Mityvac for around $30ish, plus Advance Auto Parts has some Actron(?)-brand unit that's similar.
Old Jan 5, 2006 | 08:28 AM
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beautiful. . . I assume this would work just as well with bleeding the clutch?
Old Jan 5, 2006 | 08:37 AM
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autozone has one for $30. Going to pick it up after work, take apart my brake, and bleed it along with the clutch.
Old Jan 5, 2006 | 08:42 AM
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I made my own but those on ebay are so cheap, why not just buy one. Sealing the Master cylinder cap is difficult on imports. Caps are not rigid enough.

http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=64046
Old Jan 5, 2006 | 03:18 PM
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hey man I'm getting new pads pretty soon, if you live close by we could pump each other's brakes....



wow that sounded really gay.
but seriously I think we could help each other out.
Old Jan 5, 2006 | 03:20 PM
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Who's the pumper and who is the pumpee??

Originally Posted by AsthmaMax11
hey man I'm getting new pads pretty soon, if you live close by we could pump each other's brakes....



wow that sounded really gay.
but seriously I think we could help each other out.
Old Jan 5, 2006 | 08:27 PM
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Originally Posted by AsthmaMax11
hey man I'm getting new pads pretty soon, if you live close by we could pump each other's brakes....

wow that sounded really gay.
but seriously I think we could help each other out.
Sounds good, let me know when your going to do your brakes.I dont know when exactly I'm going to do my brakes. I'm going to pick up some J30 calipers on saturday, and order some rotors tommorow.

I just didnt my girlfriends brakes, and it was pretty easy . . . except for the passenger side caliper bolt stripping pumping by foot is very tedious
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Who's the pumper and who is the pumpee??
very funny . . . .

I'm going to look into your home made kit, would be usefull for those days when there are no extra feet around.

By what time do I need to have my payment in by in order for my brakets and rings to ship out with everyone else?
Old Jan 5, 2006 | 09:19 PM
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I'm going to look into your home made kit, would be usefull for those days when there are no extra feet around.
I'd just look into getting one of the ebay ones. Or take a look at Harbor freight. Making mine was more of an exercise than anything else.

By what time do I need to have my payment in by in order for my brakets and rings to ship out with everyone else?
Early as possible. PM me your address and I'll start preparing the box/label now
Old Jan 5, 2006 | 09:22 PM
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PM sent. . .
Old Jan 7, 2006 | 10:21 PM
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I bought this: http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...temnumber=2068
Works wonderfully for brakes and clutch, and other things. I'm not disappointed. However I think for the money, SpeedBleeders is probably sufficient for most people.
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Old Jan 8, 2006 | 08:19 AM
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^^ thats exactly what mine looks like. I just bought it from autozone $30. It was lovely, I got a lot of dirty brake fluid out with it.

Great purchase.
Old Jan 10, 2006 | 04:31 PM
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$30?! did you get the storage case too? I'm feelin like I got ripped off. Boo me.
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Old Jan 11, 2006 | 04:51 AM
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I wish it came with a storage case, it just came in a plastic casing that got destroyed once I opened it.
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