The motive products brake bleeder does work well but only come with a cap
for an apparently 'industry standard' thread that wasn't heard of when the
Series Rovers were made. I called them up about an adapter when I got the
bleeder last fall. They said they were working on a solution but not to
hold my breath. They may have an official adapter by now, you'll have to
ask them, though.
I made it work by taking a short, 9" or so, section of 2"-2.25"x26" bicycle
inner tube, folded it back to make a cuff on both ends, and clamped it over
the pressure bleeder cap and the brake reservoir cap with hose clamps. I
had to use 15-20 psi to get the 109 to bleed properly so the inner tube
section tended to balloon out. Cured this by wrapping the inner tube with
clear packing tape. A bit cumbersome but worked fine at containing the
expansion of the tube. You can top up the brake reservoir by putting brake
fluid in the pressure bleeder, by the way, so don't need to remove the tube
to fill the reservoir while bleeding.
This pressure bleeder was the only way I could get my 109 brakes to bleed
out to a no pump, rock hard hard pedal. An almost unheard of condition for
a 109.
Aloha
Peter Ogilvie
Kona Coffee Rover
1970 88 soft top, 'huli' Mine since '84 but recovering
from exposure of the dark side.
1966 109 pickup 'slime' In my garage since '90, finally running.
1965 88 parts car, slowly sinking into the lava.
196? 88 hard top, possibly 'phoenix' if it rises, it will
certainly be from ashes or at least a pile of rust
>From: "M. Tompkins" <mmglass@ix.netcom.com>
>Reply-To: lro@works.team.net
>To: lro@Works.Team.Net
>Subject: Re: LRO: RE: Best solo brake bleeder yet
>Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 23:05:42 -0400
>
>See http://www.motiveproducts.com/home.htm
>
>Cheers,
>Mike
>'66 Hybrid Coiler 109" SW
>http://www.geocities.com/Baja/Trails/6623/
>
>"Andrew H. Litkowiak" wrote:
>
> > I missed that one :-) Does it come with a variety (or choice) of caps?
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
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