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My Eezibleed was at least 30 years old and the internal pickup tube had
hardened, broken off and was unusable, so I went and bought a whole new
kit from Halfords, not trusting the rest of the old one to be
sufficiently strong.

On using it (tyre at 15 psi) air leaked around the pipes entering and
leaving the bleed bottle and they needed to be gently pulled up to seat
them and get the air pressure to seal them.

It also leaked where the pipe joined the reservoir cap, leaking fluid
and stripping paint from my metal reservoir. On moving the pipe slightly
to seal it in the same way, it sprayed fluid out and then the whole pipe
came off, spraying fluid all over.

Despite immediately hosing it down, the fluid has attacked the paint on
the wing and badly attacked the paint on the driver's door (it's an old
ex-military Land Rover and the driver's door folds fully forward and was
therefore alongside the wing when it happened. The whole car had
recently been stripped and fully repainted, so it really stands out.

It appears that the pipe is retained in the cap purely by being pushed
through the hole and a metal tube being inserted to widen the tube
slightly, but this appears to be insufficient to ensure a proper seal.

I never had any such problem with my old kit, so am assuming that modern
manufacturing has been cheapened and is not longer of sufficient quality.