Just changed the BRAKE fluid in the cars front brakes using one piece of plastic tube & a glass jar.
Only touched the brake pedal twice throughout all this, both after I had finished.
Opened each brake nipple once to open it, and once to close it.
Took around 40 minutes to do both sides, during which I tidied the garage & sorted a few other jobs.
Intreged?
Its called "gravity bleeding" & has been used successfully by the trade for many years now. My neighbour runs his own garage in Salisbury and let me on to how to do it:
One piece of clear pipe, long enough to reach down from the bleed nipple into the jar
One glass jar, an old pasta or curry sauce one is ideal!
Best give the nipple a squirt or two of WD40 a day or so beforehand, they have a tendancy to corrode themselves into the caliper, if you are unlucky they will snap off, leaving you with a b*ggered caliper!
Use a small ratchet & 8 or 10mm six-sided socket to loosen the nipple, tightening it afterwards, the six-sided socket will stop you rounding off a reluctant nipple...
(What a great band name! The Reluctant Nipples!)
I digress.
Remove the top off your master cylinder and fill it (carefully...) to the top with new fluid.
Thread the round end of an 8/10mm spanner onto the pipe, push the end of the pipe onto the nipple, the other into the jar & thread the spanner along the pipe onto the hex part of the nipple & loosen it around a quarter of a turn, just enough to ensure a steady drip drip drip of fluid into the jar.
The fluid will now steadily pass out of the master cylinder, through the brake lines and drip out of the pipe into the jar.
Keep an eye on the fluid level in the master clylinder and top it up when necessary (a funnel will stop you sloshing brake fluid everywhere
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DON'T LET THE CYLINDER RUN DRY!
Make a cup of tea and watch as your system bleeds itself full if new fluid with NO "UP" "DOWN" "UP" "DOWN" dramas as you and your partner try to rhythmically balance both brake pedal and brake nipple twiddles.
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After the system has bled through a cylinder or two of new fluid close the nipple and switch to the other side.
Job done.
Works a treat! Now have fresh fluid and great brakes with MINIMUM stress & throwing stuff. 8-)
RESULT.