Speed bleeder VS. Solo-bleed

[Sandman817]

sounds like a cool idea, so whats the point of offering 2 different styles?

 

[99gst_racer]

sounds like a cool idea, so whats the point of offering 2 different styles?

Simple. Each manufacturer feels their design is superior to the other, so two competing products hit the market to try to earn their piece of market share.

It's the same reason we have a dozen different FMIC kits, wastegates, BOVs, etc to choose from when upgrading.

 

[motozachl]

You crack them once and bleed. For factory ones, you have to keep opening and closing the bleeder valve with the person who pumps the brake pedals and releases it. These you just crack open and start pumping the pedal. When you pull the pedal (or release) it and it travels back up, the built in check valve keeps air from being pulled into the system.

So I was going to purchase these a while back because well having someone to help is not always readily available, but glad I didn't waste the $. I forget who it was but I know it was a wiseman that mentioned that you can bleed your regular nipples super easy all by yourself. The technique was to just crack the nipple open with a hose on the end, and other end of the hose sitting in brake fluid as normal. Then just continue pushing in the brake pedal about 10x times. On the last recoil of the brake pedal get out of the car and close the nipple. Do this for all calipers in the correct sequence and your done. I did this and it worked perfectly. No air will enter the system if the hose is submerged into the fluid and just pumps all the air out.

99gst perhaps your having issues in the master cylinder and need to bench bleed....

 

[99gst_racer]

It's official - bleeder screws hate me.

I installed my solo-bleed screws today and had bad luck. Apparantly my version of hand tight differs from Earls', although I didn't go any tighter with these than with any other bleeder screw. The brass plunger valve was permanently wedged into the assembly upon the first tightening. You couldn't even burn $20 in a titty bar as quick as I just did with these things. These have room for improvement in the design IMO. The spring is incredibly weak too, so I don't even know how well they'd keep air out anyway.

I'm picking up some standard bleeder screws tomorrow and bleeding them the old fashion way.

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[UofACATS]

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That's the unit I bought a while back. I picked it based on a local DSMers recommendation who is a tech at the Lexus dealer and said that's what half the guys use. That was enough endorsement for me, and it's been worth every penny.

I noticed it doesn't like to work under very well if there's under ~90psi in the tank, and it uses a lot of air so a 30+ gallon or high CFM compressor is recommended. I did bleed the full-SS clutch line with a 2 gallon compressor, but it was bleed, wait, bleed, wait.. which got old, fast.

As for the brakes, I don't have ABS, I bleed fairly often (ATE Blue) because I run the car on the track, and my bleeders are cleaned every time, but the power bleeder works great. It functions exactly how you imagine it once you figure out how much to crack the bleeders.

 

[97gst_spyder]

Damn! I was hoping that the solo bleeds were better than speed bleeders.

Are they maybe one time use? Both bleeders split in the same spot.