Bleeding brakes

hipporider said:

Well i bled front & rear brakes, with help from a mate, using the old tube immersed in jar of fluid.Rear brake works fine.Totally flushed the front brakes and rear ,yet the front lever still feels mushy and I can nearly pull the lever to the bar! Still brakes fine on the road ,I might add.

Any tricks needed??

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idk said:

It sounds like you still have air in the front brakes. However, do they get very solid if you apply them twice quickly? It could be that one or both of the front disks are a little jammed up in their floating ability. This would mean that they push the disk pads back a little bit when the rotors rotate. The first pull on the brakes would then get the pads to the disk but use all the brake lever travel to do it. The second pull would then do what the first one should have been able to do. Cleaning out the points where the rotors float would fix that problem.

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barbagris said:

Hippo - AIR.

OEM lines or after market? - that ruddy T-Piece is a PITA

Did you bleed upright or on sidestand? - it's really important that you final bleed with the lever end of the M/C assembly higher than the banjo-bolt end.

What Fluid? - it's by no means a show stopper assuming it was brand new fluid from a not previously opened sealed bottle/tin. But it's worth mentioning.

That or a worn seal ring on the M/C plunger. But that's something that only really wears if there's corrosion somewhere.

What did the OLD fluid look like?

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hipporider said:

OEM lines.Cant see whats wrong with them.Why is the T piece a PITA?
old Fluid look gunky! We flushed till it looked good and different colour as the new fluid was a different colour.

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