Not sure but I guess this is probably the place for this thread. I'm just curious how ya'll bleed your brakes. I've always just had someone push the brake pedal and I crack the bleeder, you know the drill. I was curious if ya'll have done it another way and find it better, worse or about the same. Maybe this is a dumb thing but I thought I'd ask. Let's see what ya'll say. Thanks!

 

At work I use a pressure bleeder. At home I connect a hose to the bleeder screw and put the other end into a bottle that is half full with brake fluid. Crack the bleeder screw and pump the pedal about five times and close the bleeder, then move onto the next wheel. Very simple and I can do it alone.

 

I have tried reverse brake bleeder and it works when your alone.
Or the hillbilly on man way

 

They sell a self bleeder that has a magnet attached to it guess a 1 ounce bottle, I used it on my trail blazer, i would recommend it, lol

 

I've always heard using the half full bottle method that air can leak around the bleeder screw threads, have you ever had a problem with that?

 

have you used that reverse bleeder or just a reverse bleeder in general?

 

I've seen those but they always just looked cheesy to me.

 

Bled mine using the Harbor Freight pneumatic brake bleeder. Worked fine.

 

The reverse bleeder i have is a motive products it looks like a garden sprayer tank with a pump on it.

 

Nope, never had an issue.

 

It passed my expectations, it's not great but it gets the job done!

 

MightyVac for me.

 

Me too. Great little tool, and you can use it for more than brakes.

 

Yup. Got one years ago when I owned the towing business.
Seems that every time I needed to bleed brakes on one of the TopKicks, I was the only one in the shop.

I did make an addition to it. It's a metal cradle to hole the "jar" stable and upright on the floor during the bleeding process.

 

I close it back up as fluid is coming out just to be safe.