Cheropair
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Kansas City
OK, see here's the deal - got a couple of Cherokees that need to have their brake system flushed - easiest way to do it is with a power brake bleeder, which I don't own, and I don't want to pay someone to do it (AKA I'm cheap!).
Cleaning out the attic, I found an old pump-up sprayer that I used to use for spraying bugs/weeds. Worked great, all plastic, held about 3 quarts. Couldn't find a new gun/wand after the original was crushed by a careless floor-jack operator (yea, I know NOW that I should have picked it up), but could this be used to "power" a brake bleeder?
Thought is to put a hose barb in the top of an extra M/C cover, then hose clamp the hose to connect the sprayer to the M/C. Give it a few pumps to pressurize, then crack open the wheel cylinders and watch the juice fly! I suspect that the M/C cover would hold a few pounds of pressure, can someone confirm? Also, the '96 has a screw-on cap (spotted one in the HELP section that could be drilled/ hose barbed), will the plastic tank hold a few pounds of pressure? Sprayer tank is translucent, so running out of brake fluid would be just stupid, and brake fluid is relatively expendable.......
Any suggestions?
Cleaning out the attic, I found an old pump-up sprayer that I used to use for spraying bugs/weeds. Worked great, all plastic, held about 3 quarts. Couldn't find a new gun/wand after the original was crushed by a careless floor-jack operator (yea, I know NOW that I should have picked it up), but could this be used to "power" a brake bleeder?
Thought is to put a hose barb in the top of an extra M/C cover, then hose clamp the hose to connect the sprayer to the M/C. Give it a few pumps to pressurize, then crack open the wheel cylinders and watch the juice fly! I suspect that the M/C cover would hold a few pounds of pressure, can someone confirm? Also, the '96 has a screw-on cap (spotted one in the HELP section that could be drilled/ hose barbed), will the plastic tank hold a few pounds of pressure? Sprayer tank is translucent, so running out of brake fluid would be just stupid, and brake fluid is relatively expendable.......
Any suggestions?