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Omega General Help / Re: Brake Bleading question?
« on: 06 January 2011, 10:31:52 »Quote
An Easy-bleed is indeed a good option. If anything, it eliminated the repeated briefings explaining the procedure to Mrs. KW.
I found the seal around the fluid bottle leaked brake fluid everywhere and it was a pain getting a spare tyre out every time, so mine now just has a schraeder valve on it and I connect it to the compressor, set it to 10-20 PSI and bleed using the fluid in the reservoir. Check the level after every wheel and it's fine.
If you hear a sound like a kid getting to the bottom of his bottle of coke while drinking through a straw you're in trouble - the reservoir is empty. Don't ask me how I know what it sounds like.
Oh, and you don't need the engine running. In fact, if bleeding the manual way I would NOT have the engine running because you can feel what's going on without the brake servo working!
Kevin
That sounds very familiar, and is why I bought an ezi-bleed, which works as advertised, but not on SWMBO's Jazz due accessibility of reservoir.
