Originally Posted by Viney

Are the pistons in the calipers out from the caliper? If so, remove the caliper form the fork and press the pistons back into the caliper (Both at the same time) (make sure that the resiviour is not full when you do this. This will push the fluid back up the lines and hopefully air.

i shall check and try

Just while i think of it, all the banjos are tight and you do have a copper washer on both faces of the banjos at the top and bottom?

thats the first thing i checked, iv got no leaks from the bolts at all

As for the fluid out of the nipple, this is ok, but you really only need to open the nipples about 1/4 of a turn. If you where closer, id come and do it for you. It took me forever to get the knack but now i have, i can do it with less than 250ml of fluid!