[TimW]

I’m starting to wonder if the whole Speed Bleeder vs. Pressure Bleeder, bleed the top vs. bleed both issue actually “depends”.

I mean, neither the Speed Bleeder or the Pressure Bleeder systems are truly “one man” (or woman) for the weekend wrench who bleeds once a year. But either would probably be fine for the racer who bleeds more regularly (weekly/daily).

Same probably goes for bleeding the top vs. both. Bleeding both is wise when you only do it once a year, but for the regular, bleeding just the top may be okay (and bleed both every now and then)? I don’t know for sure, I’m just speculating. What I do know is from the posts I read is there are as many opinions as there are options.

I do have a few other questions. For the Speed Bleeder fans, how do you bleed? Do you have one person on the pedal and another watching for bubbles at the caliper? Or do you just pump enough fluid through to be reasonable sure you got it? And for the Pressure Bleeder fans, how do you deal with the proportioning value (or do you just have a T)? The tech article suggest after pressure bleeding you go back and manually bleed to get the air out of the proportioning value, but that seems redundant (but necessary).

The only way I can see bleeding the brakes on a 914 being truly one-man is to have a T rather than a proportioning value, and use the Pressure Bleeder.