Tim will have a much better answer, and be able to put it into much better words, and probably address the question about adapting the refrigerent vacuum to make a bleeder system.
Harbor Freight does have a vacuum bleeder kit ready-made that is very affordable too (I think about $20), so you may want to check that out first to see if it is worth the trouble to adapt your refrigerent vacuum or not...
On the manual 1-man bleeder kit and/or the speedy bleeder screws... If you have a second person, it does make the job easier. But, if you dont have a second person available, you can reliably and safely get the job done yourself... hook the hose and collector bottle up to the bleeder screw, open the screw enough, and then go push the pedal. Come check after a push or two that the bleeder is open enough. Here is step 1 were a the job is easier with a second person to press the pedal for you on command, while you watch the bleeder screw. If you are conservative about how much to open the bleeder and doing this by yourself, you may repeat this part several times before you have really "started" on the first wheel... With that small bottle in the kit from Harbor Freight, I think 3 or 4 pushes of the pedal are going to fill up the bottle, so you have to stop pushing, close the bleeder, drain the bottle, might as well top off the MC while you are stopped, and then start over. When you came to check if the bottle was full and needed to be emptied, the drain tube leading to the bottle would either have bubbles in it, meaning you were not done, or it would not have bubbles...
You empty and fill the bottle as many times as it takes without seeing bubbles in the hose to make you comfortable that you have evacuated the air from that section of line and that cylinder.
If you have the speedy bleeder screws with the integrated check-valve, you can use as big a bottle/jar/bucket as you want to catch the evacuated brake fluid without stoping to refill every few pumps of the pedal.
But, to really make the job as simple and foolproof as possible, then a power or vacuum kit, like Jim Merit referred to, is the way to go.
The low-tech speedy bleeder or 1-man bleeder kits are a little more old-school...
Keith
Last edited by MacX; 07/30/2010 11:24 PM.
