Firstly, sorry for what may seem like a stupid question chaps.
A bit of background. I had a seized rear caliper, (off side), which I've replaced. During which, because I had sprained the flange nut without realising, I ended up loosing most of my brake fluid.
I had a mate come round the other day to help bleeding the brakes using the old two-man method. After a couple of hours we still hadn't managed to bleed even the first caliper, (near side rear). I had the jar end of the tube submerged in brake fluid so as not to suck any air back into the system, and he kept his foot on the brake untill I had shut the bleed nipple on the caliper.
He would pump and hold, I'd open the nipple and some fluid would come out followed by loads of air bubbles. Then the pressure would drop, requiring me to close the nipple and him to pump again. As I said, this went on for a couple of hours untill late into the night. At that point we called it a day, and I bought a Gunson's Ezzi-bleed the next day.
So, here's my question.....
When I'm using the Ezzi-bleed and I open the bleed nipples, (so far done near side rear and off side front), I'm not seeing any air bubble escape from the tube attached to the bleed nipple. I'd have thought that the brake fluid being injected under pressure would force the air out of each caliper once the bleed nipple was opened, therefore making it clearly visible through the bleed tube attached to the caliper?
One thing of note is that the clear plastic tube attached to the cap that fits onto the master cylinder does leak fluid ever so slightly. Surely it cant be likely that any air in the system is being purged at this point?
Or is what's happening perfectly normal?
Just one quick word of warning though chaps. The first time I attached the Ezzi-bleed and pressured up the system, I ended up with a huge spurt of brake fluid exiting the tube that goes from the bottle to the master cylinder. This was caused by a tiny split in the clear plastic pipe. I took it back to Halfords and we looked at all the other eight items that they had in stock and all eight had the same defect. The hole / split was so small that you could hardly see it with your eyes, but you could feel it by running the edge of your finger nail along the pipe. Problem was solved by pulling the pipe off and cutting a little bit away.
In advance, cheers
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which may explain why the canister was so difficult to remove.