When it comes to the essentials of any car, brakes rate right up there with things like wheels and gasoline. A solid, firm brake pedal is a good place to start checking that your brakes work properly.

Traditionally, bleeding your hot rod's brakes requires three people: One to pump the brake pedal, a second to work the wheel-cylinder bleeders, and a third to referee the inevitable brawl between the ...

I think the accepted way for a one-person bleed is to fill a tube with fluid and place it in a resevoir of more fluid. As the pedal is pumped, it will bubble air out but draw fluid in.