Orion Motor Tech Brake Bleeder Kit with Hand Vacuum Pump and Adapters, Brake Bleeding Kit for Brake Fluid Power Steering Fluid More, Vacuum Brake Bleeder Pump with Pressure Gauge

The tool works great. Easy to use and good value for money. The included valve adapters didn’t work for my application but I was able to use the hose itself on the bleed valve. Made light work of changing my motorcycle’s brake fluid.

Perfect size in the plastic box it comes in, very durable, easy to remove from the box and put together. All parts including plastic are built to last. Used to flush brake fluid from 2 vehicles and still working well.

Well made kit. Pump is sturdy and will last longer than the plastic ones I have had in the past. Nice case and plenty of tubes and connections included. Problem is this kit does not work for my car. No fault of the kit. When I crack open the bleeder valves all I suck with the pump is air through the threads of the bleeder. If you have a car where the bleeders are sealed well enough for this pump to work then this is a good solution. I ended up doing what I always do, get my wife to pump the brake pedal. With the suction pump and cup this allowed me to keep everything drip free but it was not a one man operation, which is what I was hoping for. It also work very well for sucking all the old fluid out of the master cylinder reservoir and to refill it with fresh before beginning.

This product does not seal properly, so it constantly loses pressure. On top of that, when you use the trigger, the screw that holds it in place comes loose very frequently, which makes it unreliable and frustrating to use. The bulb technically works, but the overall build quality is very poor. It feels cheap and unsafe, and you have to keep adjusting it just to continue working. I do not recommend this product at all.

Worked exactly as I needed. What else could you ask for?

If you’re buying this with the thought that you’ll be able to bleed brakes by yourself, at the corner of the vehicle, with this one amazing tool, I wouldn’t count on it. The vacuum pump functions fine for vacuuming fluid out of the reservoir. Although the capacity of the collection jar is tiny when you’re talking about removing fluid from most vehicles, it does a good job actually creating vacuum and removing the fluid. When it comes to attaching to a bleeder screw and maintaining a vacuum to bleed your lines and calipers, it is not so simple. The plastic bleeder attachments are cheap and flimsy, designed to fit a multitude of vehicles, so the chances that the fit will be snug on your particular bleeder are slim. Some grease or some teflon might help you make a better seal, but by the time you have made that mess, you’re better off using the old school method of submerging a piece of tubing into a Gatorade bottle 1/4 full of clean break fluid and creating your own brake bleeder. Even with some teflon and grease, and using the including wire clamps, I wasn’t able to make a tight enough seal around my bleeder to make any meaningful progress. Keep in mind, I’m bleeding brakes on a Suburban, so large calipers, lots of brake line, a large amount of fluid. It took 10 minutes of pumping and cracking the bleeder to get about an ounce of fluid out of the first caliper, meaning it isn’t worth the time or effort. I wound up aborting, and using the included tubing and a clean 1/2 full bottle of brake fluid to make a poor man’s brake bleeder, and finished the corner I was working on and the other 3 corners in about the same amount of time that I wasted playing with the vacuum pump. Keeping it around, because I can see other uses for it in the future around the garage, like changing power steering fluid or pumping fluid out of a differential or transmission pan without having to remove the entire pan (although I’m going to have to fabricate a much larger catch can for that job, because 6 oz at a time will take all day) but it wasn’t the end all be at all brake bleeder that it is advertised to be.

Good tool for the money

I have an 03 Toyota Corolla(non-ABS brake system) that I've made a hobby to experiment on and do as much as I can to it maintenance wise within reason. It's my only car and I've owned it since 2005. I thought I'd try to bleed my own brakes since I have replaced the rotors, brake pads, drums and brake shoes a few years ago. I went to the auto-shop to bleed the brakes for me back then. This inexpensive pump did the trick for me. I did a lot of research reading forums and watching Youtube videos. One thing that made me uneasy though is some people were saying seeing small bubbles is normal since the vaccum pressure is sucking air through the threads of the bleeder screw and isn't necessarily indicating there is air in the brake line nor does seeing these small bubbles mean that air is going into the line. Some folk were applying a grease or teflon tape around the brake bleeder screw to prevent air from being sucked into tube during the brake bleed process which I did not do. I chose the mindset that seeing a stream of air bubbles was normal and not to worry that they were going to make it into the brake line since the vaccum pressure was pulling. I did all four brakes and the braking system works fine. I'm happy to know the old dark brake fluid has been replaced with fresh new fluid. I did not use the black tips that came with the kit. I felt better securing the clear tubing directly over the bleeder screws. At a later date, I used this same pump to siphon out the old power steering(P/S) fluid from the reservoir. To my knowledge, this fluid hasn't been replaced once since I've had the car. I then filled the reservoir full with fresh Dexron III ATF from Toyota since that is what this car specifies to use for P/S fluid interestingly enough. I redirected the P/S fluid reservoir return hose into an empty bottle. I raised the front wheels to turn them from lock to lock to push new fluid through the system and push out the dark old P/S fluid until I saw the cherry red color. Had to top off the reservoir a few times as you do not want it to run dry since that would introduce air into the P/S system which you'd have to bleed out. I hope this review and my comments are helpful!