[Nezil]

Originally Posted by wellvrsd

OP, when you were trying to reverse bleed, did you have the bleeder screw open 3-4 turns? I found this to be necessary when I reverse bled mine. I initially tried operating the bleeder like I normally would (60ish degree swing of the wrench) and no fluid was moving. It didn't even start to drip without a turn or two.

I did, yes. I hope I didn't give the impression that reverse bleeding wouldn't work. What I hoped my post said was that reverse bleeding is a viable method if you can get it to work... but I couldn't.

The other thing I wanted to get across is the reason reverse bleeding works, because I kept reading that it was to do with bubbles rising etc, which is not the reason at all.

I tried reverse bleeding in 3 ways:

• Meat marinade syringe - leaked out the bottom of the syringe under any back pressure
• Harbor Freight Oil Can - Stopped pumping as soon as there was any back pressure
• Mitevac containter (in reverse) with airbrush compressor - worked fine initially, but air leaked out of the cap once the pressure was increased

I think some people had used a large (non-leaking) syringe, and this is probably capable of more than the ~10psi that I could achieve with the Mitevac container.

By the way, what approach did you use for reverse bleeding?