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Originally Posted by Capt. Carrera
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Good.
I don't plan on buying a new car or truck, but a shop with a Snap On scanner bled the brakes on my old 96 truck. The power brake vacuum cannister was going bad and I went to a shop to get it changed. I was using the truck to get back and forth from rehab after getting an artificle Knee. I thought no way could I get up under that dash and back up to handle this. The guy at the shop didn't want to either. After letting him listen to the whoosh of loosing vacuum when pedal was mashed, squeezing the hose with channelocks and motor slowing down, he wanted to do a bunch of other stuff.
Well I changed it and master cylinder and after bench bleeding the master cylinder, had a soft pedal. Went to another shop and asked to get my brakes bleed. Figured on the rack and maybe a pressure bleeder and opening the bleed screws. The mechanic plugged in the scanner and with motor running bleed them of air in the antilock thing by mashing buttons on the scanner in about 10 minutes.
Sure beat me up under the truck and having my wife pump and hold the brakes while I open and closed bleed screws. So I like some of the fancy electronics if the auto manufactures share the data on how sytems work and the data collected.