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I just thought of a weird way of bleeding your brakes. How about using you engine vacuum to bleed the brakes instead of a hand operated vacuum pump? you would still need to have a bottle in place to catch the fluid.
Caliper Bleeder---> Vacuum Bottle/Reservoir---> Intake Manifold.
So the procedure would be fill up the master cylinder with fluid, attach all the hoses, start the engine and begin bleeding at the wheel...
it seems like a cheap alternative to a power bleeder setup, and turns brake bleeding into a one man operation. the only thing i can think of is if the engine makes enough vacuum to suck out the fluid. Or possibly the other extreme, if the engine makes too much vacuum and sucks out the fluid too fast.
Anyone done this before?
Caliper Bleeder---> Vacuum Bottle/Reservoir---> Intake Manifold.
So the procedure would be fill up the master cylinder with fluid, attach all the hoses, start the engine and begin bleeding at the wheel...
it seems like a cheap alternative to a power bleeder setup, and turns brake bleeding into a one man operation. the only thing i can think of is if the engine makes enough vacuum to suck out the fluid. Or possibly the other extreme, if the engine makes too much vacuum and sucks out the fluid too fast.
Anyone done this before?
