Barney Gaylord wrote:
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> On Tue, 07 Jan 1997 00:36:54 EST larryhoy@juno.com (Larry A Hoy) writes:
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> > ..... We've made it 25 years without the Mighty Vac, but what about
> the next 25 years
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> Get a Gunson's Eezi-bleed. Works great on an A.
>
> Barney Gaylord
> 1958 MGA
Oh shoot. I hate to disagree with anyone anymore. But...
I own both: The Might Vac and the Ezi-bleed. If you wanna stop by the
house I'll give you the Ezi-bleed.
The Mighty-Vac is a handheld, manual, vaccuum pump. It comes with a
resivour and two pieces of hose and will suck anything that has a nipple
the hose will fit over. You hook it up to the bleed-screw on a caliber,
twist open the bleed screw, crank on the handle, and it sucks out
hydralic fluid (brakes or clutch slave cylinder). If you screw up and
make a mess, it only piddles on the floor. It works great.
The Ezi-bleed is a pressurized brake bleeder. It has a variety of caps
that fit over master cylinders (brake or clutch). The caps have a tube
that goes over to a pretty good size resvior of hydralic fluid. You
pressurize this bottle with a supplied connector to a source -- like the
left front tire.
My problem (and opinion) is that the components to the Ezi-Bleed aren't
that hot and its easy to get a leak. Leaks in this case are in your
engine compartment, under the master cylinder, and dribbles on your
fender. I've had leaks in the cap/master cylinder and the tube that goes
to the cap. I was really, really, really frustrated with the Ezi-bleed.
When it worked, it worked perfect.
The Mighty-Vac requires several sucky-sucky/refill MC cycles before the
brake/clutch system is flushed but it is much less error-prone and
messy.
I've seen both systems in the VB catalog and I've seen Mighty-Vac on the
shelves of good auto parts houses. The Mighty-Vac is going big time with
attachments for doing other things -- like cylinder leak-down tests.
FWIW IMHO YMMV
Bob Allen, Kansas City, '69CGT, '75TR6
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