I want to bleed my Beetle brakes and am thinking of modifying a double barrel foot pump.
The theory is to separate them, use one to act as a slave cylinder to push the brake pedal, the other to act as master cylinder from whichever brake I
am doing and connecting them with hose pipe and using water as the fluid between the two.
What do you think? 
Gunsons easibleed works well for £20
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Originally posted by Simon
I want to bleed my Beetle brakes and am thinking of modifying a double barrel foot pump.
The theory is to separate them, use one to act as a slave cylinder to push the brake pedal, the other to act as master cylinder from whichever brake I am doing and connecting them with hose pipe and using water as the fluid between the two.
What do you think?
I like to make things difficult, don't like to ask for favours and car is at work so bit awkward to get help. I thought it was quite a good idea.
Maybe I'll do the eazibleed instead
Easybleed does what you are trying to achieve with a foot pump and works.
Runs off tyre pressure
Just buy the right pro tool --- not expensive single man bleeding in seconds better than mucking about with an eezibleed toy
Pressure Ebay link
[Edited on 24/10/20 by britishtrident]
Eezibleed has worked just fine on every car I've used it on.
The problem with the type shown by BT is it only comes with one”cap” , alright it is the type with the same thread as a lot of modern cars but with the straight fitting it has access is limited on a lot of cars, you have to use a cap with a right angled fitting AND most importantly it WILL NOT fit an air cooled Beetle which is why I suggested an Easibleed. The OP doesn’t say if his is a classic or modern type Beetle I know
It's a 1303 Got an eezibleed now need to find the time to do it!
You need to check there is a cap to fit the reservoir in the kit ,if not modify your existing item making sure the top surface is flat and can seal . Use the spare tyre with an absolute maximum pressure of 20 PSI in fact 15PSI will work with less chance of leakage from the cap
Yeah, there are two similar sized small caps in the box and one of those does indeed fit the Beetle reservoir