It's sorted now Chrome but thanks for that, I'll bear it in mind for the future.

I've done numerous brake fluid changes without issue before this with the Eezibleed.

When I was nearing my wits' end, I clamped the flexible hose to the slave to see if this would firm up the pedal and prove that the air was in the slave cylinder. The clamp did resist a certain amount of pedal pressure but then passed some fluid, followed by a gurgle. I'd inadvertently left the Eezibleed connected and under pressure during this procedure. The bleed nipple was closed, so the only way any air could have got out was up through the master cylinder and into the reservoir, which sounds a bit far fetched.

I don't know if this budged the air or not but repeatedly using the Eezibleed conventionally seemed to be achieving nothing other than wasting brake fluid, so I see the attraction of Ed's syringe method.

Having just represented the syringe thing as much better than sliced..er...salami (sliced bread is fairly naff) I've just had an instance (on a 1997 Taiwan Honda Accord) where it didn't work.

Going round the car sucking fluid out of the bleeder until it came clean, but on the rear left it stayed dirty for about 50 mls, it got very hard to pull fluid, and it was sucking a lot of air in via the threads.

I usually have PTFE tape on the bleeder threads as an anti-seize, and to reduce air leakage, but I havn't had this system dry so havn't yet had an opportunity to do that.

I tried some silicon grease (unobtanium here so used sparingly) which reduced the air leakage, but only a little. (Didn't want to use an oil base grease since I might get it into the system.).

Wasn't able to push much fluid in either.

I suspect an internally collapsed flexi brake hose. It seems plausible that positive pressure bleeding is less likely to cause this

Edited by edlithgow on 30/11/2020 at 23:49

(Duplicate post)

Edited by Avant on 30/11/2020 at 13:28