Brake Bleeder

[Rally Pack 2000]

I always used a simply brake bleeder which I thought was called "Ezy Bleed" or something like that. It was an all plastic one way valve at one end and a bit of ribber tubing at the other to seal at the nipple. You just dandled the plastic valve into a jar for the fluid to go. I tried some chinese replacement ones where there was a metal valve in the middle but the thing always leaked air so the old plastic one just always worked for me without fuss. I cant seem to find them for sale any more and literally everyone is calling their product by the same name but using different letters like Eezee Bleed and things like that. They are all the over complicated vacuum bottle type though. Can anyone remember if I have got the originals name right and where I can buy one? I would post a photo I cant seem to find one. Thanks

[BIG G]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/265214345502?var=0&mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=710-53481-19255-0&campid=5338268676&toolid=10044&customid=CjwKCAiAv9ucBhBXEiwA6N8nYH7UibIB99caoeI0DdWVKCuqiI-zJ2w5CfgM0v4osL0l831ahLJHRRoC9L0QAvD_BwE

 

This is the one I have and use, great bit of kit to be fair, 

[Miniliteman]

I use an EeziBleed from Gunson, uses the pressure from a spare tyre to push the fluid into the system. Does the job.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81978cX2oTL._AC_SL1500_.jpg

[Nige65]

1 hour ago, Miniliteman said:

I use an EeziBleed from Gunson, uses the pressure from a spare tyre to push the fluid into the system. Does the job.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81978cX2oTL._AC_SL1500_.jpg

Second that, always worked for me and at a good price 👍

[Rally Pack 2000]

I found it! The one I used to use was the Europat Vizibleed. Its not available here any more but still seems to be around in the UK. There is a second version I haven't seen before with a bottle attached to catch the fluid. As you can see is nothing as complex as the vacuum ones. Just always had success with it and if something works I try stick with it. There is a YouTube Video even and the guy buys them from Halfords apparently.

 

[deltamal]

I've had a Gunson easybleed kit for 20 years or so now, works well on the Cortina as there are a few places where the air is hard to bleed through, but the tyre pressure soon shifts it!

[Ray]

when i were a lad a simple brake bleed tube like this sufficed, a blanked end tube with a slit in it, e bay item no. 162887837589

hovever these days i use a vacuum bleeder as this dosnt need a second person

and modern vehicles it tends to be think again, as some ABS systems even that dosnt work, my transit for example has to have the ABS system bled with the diagnstic system, and it also forbids piston pushback without the bleed nipples open, ie all the excess fluid from push back must come out of the bleed nipples and not back through the system, and fresh fluid must be put in through the master cycinder, as the ABS system is very sensitive to the slightest of dirty fluid

modern junk

[Rally Pack 2000]

9 hours ago, Ray said:

when i were a lad a simple brake bleed tube like this sufficed, a blanked end tube with a slit in it, e bay item no. 162887837589

hovever these days i use a vacuum bleeder as this dosnt need a second person

and modern vehicles it tends to be think again, as some ABS systems even that dosnt work, my transit for example has to have the ABS system bled with the diagnstic system, and it also forbids piston pushback without the bleed nipples open, ie all the excess fluid from push back must come out of the bleed nipples and not back through the system, and fresh fluid must be put in through the master cycinder, as the ABS system is very sensitive to the slightest of dirty fluid

modern junk

I guess thats why the one i pictured above is pretty much discontinued which just a bit of NOS laying about in the UK. Its pretty much unusable in anything built in the last decade. I will say it again ........ old cars are better!