Recommend me a brake bleeder tool

[Kram]

On a CBR yes, on a long travel suspension bike with a fairing and wide handle bars like the Africa Twin then not so close
And my short arm comment was with regards normal bleeding where you need to be able to pump the lever at the same time as being able to open/close the bleed nipple.

Does my brothers Dl650 Vstrom count? Done that a few times

 

[Hood]

I just measured the ATAS, 5'8" around the front and 6' via the tank, good luck trying to open/close bleed valves whilst pumping a lever and keeping an eye on fluid level.

 

[Farside]

I used a small rubber pipe fit to the nipple, the other end closed with a screw and then make a slot with razor blade (non-return valve.)
Open up master reservoir, open up new container and invertor it bottle in reservior, just automatically tops in up. Someting to stops it fall over (tape). Rubber into a jar. They commercal sold these in '60, Then pump brake. Did on Kuga few years back.

That's the way I did it for years, until some weird cap shapes and sizes came along. The old Girling metal reservoirs were a doddle.
It's still a perfectly viable method for non-ABS systems, and maybe even for some of them (don't know for sure, haven't tried yet).

 

[Kram]

Brake bleeder arrived, appears good quality, tiny bit of debris in the bottle that needs a rinse out, looks like it will do the job, only if the caps can fit my car..

 

[dobbslc]

@Kram how did you get along with the brake bleed?

 

[Kram]

It went well, once I had abaondoned the universal cap for the bleeder tool. I was lucky that I could get the 43mm screw cap to seal on my quater turn bottle as it has stops after each tab.
However saying that, I only bled the rear offside as I was doing the pads. I will buy a proper quater turn cap to modify before I bleed the others.

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Mar 9, 2025

Last time I did the rear passenger side pads as it was a matter of urgency. Your supposed to do both wheels at the same time but the right had plenty left, about half worn, which the left would have been if they hadn't siezed on the slide pins, so drivers rear was todays task.

A major annoyance again, the slide pins. Despite the calipers being replaced last year the pins had no lubrication, some rust and wear visible and likely would have siezed soon. One pin is different to other 7 on the car in that, it has a rubber tip - one that did not want to go back in its hole and I have had to...

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[dobbslc]

I've just ordered the Sealey one but does anyone know if the cap it's supplied with will fit a Mini Cooper R57?