Brake fluid flush, what do you do?
I dislike NOT pressure bleeding, and you can (most of the time) fairly easily build something that will work. If you can keep your eye on the master you don't even need something to feed fluid. On the older cars such as these, you need a flat plate and gasket. You can make this even out of plywood. "Rig" a way with say, eyebolts/ J bolts (2 or 4) and a light piece of chain to clamp the plate to the top of the master. Piece of whatever for a gasket, bulk neoprene rubber. cut/ gouge a channel in the plate to carry pressure to the two sections, and tap the thing for some sort of air fitting. Buy a cheap regulator
One "can" I built........found an aluminum drinking bottle at the thrift with a substantial screw in lid. Bought a length of 3/16 or 1/4 brake tube and a basic end fitting from inverted flare to pipe Drill to holes in the screw cap of the water bottle, use JB weld to glue the tubing in, one just enter, the other to the bottom
Now you can "series" that bottle in your air system to the pressure plate device and it will auto feed fluid
Use lots of rags and a cheap baking/ etc pan to catch leakage. Thrift store towels are cheap. You don't want fluid on your paint
I've done this with just about every vehicle I've needed. On the Dakota/ ram/ GMC I bought replacement filler caps at the parts store, drilled and tapped the cap for a fitting and away you go. The caps run ?? 12-15 bucks
The general idea this is a GM guy's method I stole from the www
I dislike NOT pressure bleeding, and you can (most of the time) fairly easily build something that will work. If you can keep your eye on the master you don't even need something to feed fluid. On the older cars such as these, you need a flat plate and gasket. You can make this even out of plywood. "Rig" a way with say, eyebolts/ J bolts (2 or 4) and a light piece of chain to clamp the plate to the top of the master. Piece of whatever for a gasket, bulk neoprene rubber. cut/ gouge a channel in the plate to carry pressure to the two sections, and tap the thing for some sort of air fitting. Buy a cheap regulator
One "can" I built........found an aluminum drinking bottle at the thrift with a substantial screw in lid. Bought a length of 3/16 or 1/4 brake tube and a basic end fitting from inverted flare to pipe Drill to holes in the screw cap of the water bottle, use JB weld to glue the tubing in, one just enter, the other to the bottom
Now you can "series" that bottle in your air system to the pressure plate device and it will auto feed fluid
Use lots of rags and a cheap baking/ etc pan to catch leakage. Thrift store towels are cheap. You don't want fluid on your paint
I've done this with just about every vehicle I've needed. On the Dakota/ ram/ GMC I bought replacement filler caps at the parts store, drilled and tapped the cap for a fitting and away you go. The caps run ?? 12-15 bucks
The general idea this is a GM guy's method I stole from the www
