One Man Brake Bleeding/Pressure Bleeders, or: Can I Bleed the Brakes without Raising the Vehicle?

[llll1l1ll]

Hmm...

[BCS_ZHP]

Peter,
Easiest way is to put the car on 4 jack stands, remove all 4 wheels, bleed them, then reinstall wheels. I have all the necessary items required, you'll just need to bring your car and new brake fluid. Let me know.
Bruce

[llll1l1ll]

I'll keep you posted; but, this weekend is probably a no-go since I had plans with my girlfriend I was unaware of/forgot about.

[BCS_ZHP]

No problem, just give me a call or text (cell # in personal section) when you're ready. Did mine on Monday, new brakes and a freshly bled system did wonders.

[llll1l1ll]

Well thanks! I'll go find it and stick it in my phone. When I'm ready to do some brake bleeding, I'll let you know.

[BCS_ZHP]

Jacking the car up, setting it on jack stands properly, and putting it back on the ground will take longer than the actual bleeding part. I spent less than an hour on this the other night which entailed getting the bleeder out of the box and hooked up, bleeding the brakes, cleaning the bleeder up and putting it away, then reinstalling my wheels, and finally taking it off the jack stands and storing those. I was on the glide path home, so there might have been a beverage or two consumed in there too.

[llll1l1ll]

Sounds like all the work is really just getting everything set up and consuming some beer.

[llll1l1ll]

Reviving my old thread!

Over Christmas, my Dad gifted me a Mityvac vacuum pump brake bleeder kit thing: http://www.eastwood.com/mityvac-brake-bleeding-kit.html. Looks like that. I am confident I know how to use it; however, the instructions mention one thing: ABS system purging.

The instructions say that before bleeding, I should keep the car off and pump the brake pedal around 50 times (or some odd number) to purge/depressurize the ABS system. Are we supposed to do that with our cars? I reckon I could just use the vacuum pump and get on with my life. This little gadget seems to work just like the big boy Mityvac official brake bleeder.

Any thoughts?

[M0nk3y]

Pumping the brake that much would wear out the master cylinder seals.

You would need to cycle the ABS via special computer that dealers have, I forgot what they call it.

What should you do? Bleed the system, run the car and activate the ABS via hard stops to cycle the system, and just let the old fluid mix with new.


It's very minute amount, nothing to worry about.


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[llll1l1ll]

I think I can do that.

If cycling the ABS was such a huge deal, then nobody on this forum would have correctly bled their brakes.