Speed Bleeders or power bleeder?

"PowderHound" (PowderHound) 08/11/2015 at 16:44 • Filed to: None

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Any preference here? I’m thinking speed bleeders, but don’t really have a reason why.

dogisbadob > PowderHound 08/11/2015 at 16:47

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Speed bleeders are awesome!

Decay buys too many beaters > PowderHound 08/11/2015 at 16:56

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Depends on use. For occasional use on road cars, speed bleeders are great (I use them on my bikes). However, they let air in after several uses, ran into this issue on my track car. So after a season of running the speed bleeders I switched back to standard ones and bought a power bleeder.

nermal > PowderHound 08/11/2015 at 17:01

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I use a Mityvac. It’s quick and easy to use, just make sure you don’t get over zealous and suck all of the fluid out, filling the lines and master cylinder with air. Trust me.

PowderHound > Decay buys too many beaters 08/11/2015 at 17:02

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I have never bled brakes and this will hopefully just be one time and not having to do it for a while.

PowderHound > nermal 08/11/2015 at 17:09

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That would give me a great excuse to go to harbor freight!

Ash78, voting early and often > PowderHound 08/11/2015 at 17:18

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I busted a reservoir right open with the Motive powerbleeder at just 12-13 psi (usually anything under 15psi is safe, but I’m going with 10psi from now on). It was a modern plastic reservoir and was about 12-13 years old, so probably getting brittle anyway. But it made me miss the old metal reservoirs...

I’m still using it, but a hand-powered Mityvac sounds very tempting in the long run.

PowderHound > Ash78, voting early and often 08/11/2015 at 17:30

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The brake fluid reservoir or the one attached to the power bleeder? I'm really liking the mityvac idea

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > PowderHound 08/11/2015 at 17:30

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http://www.amazon.com/Motive-Product… -1&keywords=motive+power+bleeder+0100

Urambo Tauro > nermal 08/11/2015 at 17:43

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I have one of those Mityvac hand pumps. Guess how my hands feel after use...

iSureWilll > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 08/11/2015 at 18:19

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So much this. These are amazing and I don't know why people still use any other methods.

6Cylinder > PowderHound 08/11/2015 at 18:57

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Just get a second person to operate the brake pedal...

MM54 > PowderHound 08/11/2015 at 20:31

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Speed bleeders changed my life for the better

AMGtech - now with more recalls! > PowderHound 08/11/2015 at 22:58

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Power. Least amount of effort and fastest, least likely to introduce air. They will keep the fluid at the top of the reservoir so you don’t need to monitor it.

Mityvac is slow and tiresome since you have to keep on pumping it. Plus you have to monitor the fluid level.

Never used speed bleeders before. But I would avoid just because I feel like being stubborn. And the check valves will wear out or corrode eventually, rendering them useless. Plus you have to pump the brakes. I would rather just hook up power and crack the bleeders and be done with it.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > PowderHound 08/12/2015 at 11:49

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Will second the Motive power bleeder. I’ve used one to do the brakes on my Subaru and they are very easy to use and turn bleeding brakes into a one person job.

SwellBell > 6Cylinder 08/12/2015 at 15:06

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+1 and itll only cost you a beer or two. Or lunch in my case.