Motive Power Bleeder

I got one years ago when I found out that I couldn't rely on my wife to help me properly bleed the brakes. Apparently, the reason I couldn't get fluid to the right rear after ten minutes was she was pushing the accelerator.... :realcrazy:

I think it works pretty well. I've used it on my several German, Jap, and US cars with the various adapters. Some of them work great and some are cheezy how you have to attach them. The link chain they provide is BS. I'll be coming up with something better before I use it again. But for bleeding by yourself, I think it is a great aid and makes it go quicker. I've heard that some people think that using only the Motiv can lead to a soft pedal. I always try to finish off the last few cycles the old way using the pedal. Something about that 1000+ psi in the line gets all the little bubbles out, IMO.

On fresh builds I've used the pressure tank with fluid to fill, and I've topped the Master off as needed. I would rather not have to clean brake fluid out of the tank so prefer to fill manually, but then you have to get the adapter to seal again.