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#1 |
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Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: NC
Posts: 987
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vacuum pump recommendation needed
I am looking for a hand-held vacuum pump and see many out there but have no experience with any of them. Can anyone recommend a hand-held vacuum pump?
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Meridian, Idaho
Posts: 321
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Re: vacuum pump recommendation needed
what are you using it for? how many cfm do you need
Matt
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: NC
Posts: 987
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Re: vacuum pump recommendation needed
Good question. My immediate needs are to bleed brakes and test a brake booster. I don't know how many cfm's would be needed.
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: St. Paul MN.
Posts: 1,996
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Re: vacuum pump recommendation needed
http://www.mityvac.com/pages/products_hvp.asp
I have had the silverline for 15+ years in the automotive industry and is also rebuild able but if you want cheep harbor freight has them. |
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: So Cal
Posts: 1,437
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Re: vacuum pump recommendation needed
Hand Held.
You may not want to do what I have always done. I buy cheap plastic ones and always end up dropping them or stepping on them. The good part about that is I have extra plastic reservoirs. Always bleed brakes with two inline reservoirs or make up an extra large reservoir to keep the brake fluid out of the pump. The fluid will screw up a $20 pump just as easily as a $70 pump. The small single reservoir they give you is not enough by itself. |
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Hollister Road Co.
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Houston
Posts: 6,134
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Re: vacuum pump recommendation needed
Just remember that when using a hand vac for brakes that you don't try to pull down
more than 10 inches. You start sucking air past the wheel cylinder rubbers if you draw to much vacuum. |
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