Gunson Eezibleed

Lopéz

Lopéz

Lopéz

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This is little more than a rant post, so I apologise in advance.

Has anyone ever successfully used a Gunson Eezibleed Kit?

I tried one a couple of years ago and found that the master cylinder cap was a really poor fit, a bit like those cheap bottles of coke where the lids flex and when you do them up tight they just pop off.
I've made a better fitting one out of an old brake fluid reservoir cap I had lying around this time.

So far I have managed to:

Respray my engine bay in a fetching shade of DOT 4
Create a small decorative master cylinder fountain
Flatten 2 tyres
Not bleed my brakes

Happy Sunday everyone :D
 
They are useless. My mates dubbed the one-man bleeding kit as the "one/five-man bleeding kit"

I use a piece of clear tubing with a one-way valve in it and a mate to watch the fluid level. Way easier.
 
I know they certainly don't fit my car, and you can't even mod a spare cap as this isn't an airtight seal I believe.
 
It worked perfectly on my old Clio and made bleeding the brakes a doddle, but my mr2 has a push fit reservoir cap so can't use it. Cracking bit of kit if you can get it to work.
 
Total rubbish product, I've now moved over to a vacuum pump system which sucks the fluid out via each bleed nipple, works fantastically.
 
I have used it very successfully on older cars (minis mainly, and I think I used it on my 16v GTE), but I agree that the caps are pretty crap and don't fit well.

I have a Mity Vac vacuum pump which I use now, but that does have it's own problems (air being drawn in through bleed nipple threads - lots of grease packed around the thread helps.)
 
I have used one with success a few times.

Did have the old 'exploding cap' on one occasion though. :o


Prefer mavity bleeding when possible though.
 
Firestar_3x said:
Total rubbish product, I've now moved over to a vacuum pump system which sucks the fluid out via each bleed nipple, works fantastically.
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This sort of thing? I've seen people use them to bleed diesel systems but never thought of using one on brakes, though thinking about it it's the ideal tool for the job I suppose.
 
Those gunson pressure bleed things? Used successfully on countless cars but once the straw fell off the cap inside the bottle and filled an Audi with air, at 1am
 
We use a Clarke Vacuum Bleeder, it works well but VERY slowly.

What we now do is hook it up and bleed using the 2 man method, it just means there is less mess.

When there is not 2 people available we use this but it takes ages!
 
I've used my Eezibleed successfully on a 306, Fabia and Puma many times. However the last time I used it the rubber seal on the fluid bottle cap had degraded and wouldn't seal down any more so I'm on the lookout for a new seal.
 
Lopéz said:
This sort of thing? I've seen people use them to bleed diesel systems but never thought of using one on brakes, though thinking about it it's the ideal tool for the job I suppose.
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That's the sort of thing yep, i went for the Draper one in the end:

http://www.draperproducts.co.uk/68714/Draper-68714-DRAPER-EXPERT-VACUUM-TEST-KIT.html

You can get it for around £50, it's well built, only issue is the tubes but those can be changed out.

Like Dogbreath states you can get air through the bleed nipple threads, my rear calipers don't cause this issue but for some reason my front brembos do, so next time i'm going to stick some PTFE tape round the threads.

You can use the bleeder to do lots and i'm actually going to use to for some pressure testing in the new year.
 
Have used one many times over the years with mixed results. Sometimes they work very well and others you just cannot get a good seal on the reservoir.

This is a very old product, has been about as long as I have been working on cars, so at least 33 years, so undoubtedly better systems out there now. The vacuum systems are pretty good, used this on my kit car, but as people have said, they can suck air in via the nipple if you loosen them too far.
 
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