Yes the cr 80 kid is right, and a clear peice of tubing will work well. If you loosen the bleeder and push on the brake, this will force fluid or air out, make sure you tighten the bleeder before you let go of the brake lever or pedal each time. With the clear tubing you can direct where you want the fluid to go (in a jar or drain pan) and also see if there is any air in the lines. Make sure you keep a close eye on the fluid resivoir, you do not want to let it go dry. Vac. pumps or other devices used to help in bleeding brakes are not a good idea for some one to use when doing it for the first time with small fluid resivoirs due to how fast they can drain the entire system. Remember these steps: 1. open bleeder screw, 2. pull on the brake lever/ or push on the foot pedal, 3. tighten bleeder screw, 4. let go of the lever/ or foot pedal. Repeat steps 1-4 until you get out all the air or the fluid becomes clear. When people say they need to bleed thier brakes, that means they have air in the brake system, if this is the case you want to find out how air got in the brake system? Most cases are from a leak and the resivoir goes dry. If you are in fact just changing the fluid, you shouldn't have any air. Another way to remove just air is to route the tubing back up and inside the resivoir holding it in the brake fluid and repeatedly pulling the handle until there is no more air coming up the clear tubing. hope this helps- bjawes