DIY brake pressure bleeder

What to do when you finish up at brake job at 9 PM and there is no one to assist you in bleeding the brakes?
Build a pressure bleeder!

This happened to me a few nights ago so. Thinking about it, I realized all I needed to do was to pressurize the master cylinder. My air compressor has a pressure regulator that can be set to the FSM’s recommendation of 15-20 PSI.
The rest of the parts were just leftovers from many past projects.
The bleeder sits on top of the MC and is held down by the chain, ¼” bolts and wind nuts.
The valve is used to turn the pressure on and off when refilling the MC.
Bleed one wheel at a time, adding brake fluid to the MC each time to prevent running the MC dry.

It only took and hour to make and it will fit my other cars. I should have done this years ago.

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genuis. how well did it work?

makkman said:

genuis. how well did it work?

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Just like the commercial one I used at work except for not have a separate reservoir.
Sure bets begging the wife to help.

Clever. Consider your idea stolen.

Car Craft magazine had an article about this several years ago, they used a thick piece of steel with an air fitting attached and a piece of rubber for a seal. I can't remember how they attached it, but I imagine it would be similar.

Great job. Gonna build one of them this wknd. I have one I made out of portable garden sprayer,I like this idea better.

I have a vacuum bleeder.....

Works well for me. but I may try that idea sometime too.....