MityVac or similar....what are you using

[flymo]

Ok, leaving the milk bottles, beer bottles and 'Casualty style' plastic tubes running from every vein to one side for a second.

Who is using a fancy gadget such as a MityVac or other brand? Which specific ones do you use and do they work well. If I'm going to fork out for one I really want it to do the job first time with no ar$ing around.

Ta

I use none, the old fashioned method is enough for me and I don't find it any slower to do.

im lost

Originally Posted by Dappa D

im lost

Brake bleeding.

ahhhhhhhh

cheers fella....

[Viney]

Learn how to do it the proper old skool way and save yourself £40! The Mity vac gets the thumbs up from those who use it

[timwilky]

whilst I use the traditional milk bottle and tube. I got one of these some years ago and it is so easy

[flymo]

Yeah, perhaps I should have mentioned that this was about brake bleeding

I do happily bleed brakes with tubes and bottles etc but thats only because I've never used one of these new fangled brake bleeders before. On top of that I do like buying tools

90% of the time using tubes is fine but every now and then you get a dry brake line thats a pain in the backside to get started. Once its flowing through properly then no problem. I find this happens more often with the back brake perhaps due to its layout.

Only used my Mityvac once (last weekend was the first time I needed it, since I got it), have used the jam jar/old brake fluid/hosing method half a dozen times. I found the Mityvac good, mainly because so long as you keep a vacuum in it by pumping, you don't need to keep snapping the bleed nipple open/closed all the time. I couldn't get the lever any harder than I could with the traditional method, but then, I could get it hard enough to be more than adequate with that.

[embee]

Mityvac for me, I have a diecast dual action version with gauge because I use it for other things (transducer calibration etc). The plastic ones are good quality industrial products, we used them in the engine test facilities in automotive industry.

Sure you can bleed brakes by a number of methods, but the continuous flow system makes it so easy to get reliable results that I find you tend to change fluid more regularly.

If you're likely to be doing brake bleeding for the forseeable future years, the cost of the mityvac will be easily justifiable.

Motrax do a more expensive version ("Big bleeder")