bleeding 6 pot tokico's

[yorkie_chris]

Mityvac schmityvac. Get a couple of 25ml syringes they cost nowt and do same thing

[andrewsmith]

a liter is a lot of fluid. I did a seal change and bleed with 250ml.

And that was with around a good half wasted getting the pistons out and cleaning out the washing out the calipers

Originally Posted by Girth

I had issues with mine so i back bled it with a syringe, mainly to get fluid through the system tho.

Triumph pump fluid up the lines from caliper to m/cyl at the factory when they fill the system from new, they don't need bleeding afterwards either.

Junk the 6 pots cos they are crap. Put some Nissin 4 pots off a Bandit 1200 on if the spacing is 90mm between the bolt centres. I recommend the Bandit Nissins because the calipers are hard anodised all the way through the working bits, including the piston bores and seal grooves, unlike all Tokicos which are bare alloy in there and suffer badly from corrosion.

My housemate has Bandit 1200 calipers on his ZX7R after junking the standard 6 pots, and with a stock ZX10R radial m/cyl they are fantastic brakes.

[yorkie_chris]

SRAD spacing is 90mm, b12 ones will fit.

TBH there's nowt wrong with the 4 or 6 pot tokicos if you keep up to the maintenance.

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

SRAD spacing is 90mm, b12 ones will fit.

TBH there's nowt wrong with the 4 or 6 pot tokicos if you keep up to the maintenance.

They require too much specialist maintenance to be a viable proposition for the average owner who isn't as mechanically minded or doesn't have as well equipped workshops as us. Bloody things need stripping and cleaning far too frequently even for me to be bothered rebuilding them just the once. They'd be the first thing I'd junk on any bike I intended to keep for any length of time

[Paul the 6th]

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

SRAD spacing is 90mm, b12 ones will fit.

TBH there's nowt wrong with the 4 or 6 pot tokicos if you keep up to the maintenance.

Apparently the 6 pots are great, IF they're maintained properly and work right. Quite a few people have said they're a biatch to bleed though

Originally Posted by Lozzo

Junk the 6 pots cos they are crap. Put some Nissin 4 pots off a Bandit 1200 on if the spacing is 90mm between the bolt centres. I recommend the Bandit Nissins because the calipers are hard anodised all the way through the working bits, including the piston bores and seal grooves, unlike all Tokicos which are bare alloy in there and suffer badly from corrosion.

My housemate has Bandit 1200 calipers on his ZX7R after junking the standard 6 pots, and with a stock ZX10R radial m/cyl they are fantastic brakes.

And yeah, alot of people have also said the same about ditching 6 pots for 4 pots as they're usually just as powerful (if not a little bit more) but require far less maintenance...

Gonna pull them apart when I get home from work tonight

yea the l of fluid was because i had just had the brakes serviced and they wernt really bled properly. i did it a lot expecting them to go solid and just couldnt get the air out of them. Strangly enough there was a lot of the dye from the red rubber grease comming out with the fluid as well. It was quite strange. Anyhow i replaced the lines with briaded ones thanks to dave numbers and they were still shocking brakes. In the end i rebuilt them with new seals and hey presto fantastic brakes.

I recon that took a lot of fluid.

[_Stretchie_]

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Those bubbles coming through tube are probably getting sucked in through threads of nipple, not fluid in caliper.

I was going to mention this. I had the same when I put braided lines on the Thundercat. Fannied around for hours bleeding.

In the end I took the bleed nipples out wrapped some PTFE around the thread and put them back, pulled the fluid through with the Mytivac and then bled them normally (bottle, brake fluid and spanner) was done in about 20 mins

[Dave20046]

Not looking forward to doing mine tomorrow