Brakes

Recently ive started to notice a large amount of play in my front brakes so ive decided im going to try to bleed them. Ive had a look at the Haynes maunal and it seems straight forward . Anybody got any pointers on what to do and if it will have the desired effect of making my brakes a bit more responsive? Also when bleeding the front calipers i take it you do side at a time? Hopefully doing a trackday on sunday so i would like to get them sorted.

Cheers,

Paul

Get a brake bleeding kit from halfords or somesuch. Simple thing, a plastic bottle with a tube and a one way valve so you don't have to keep opening and closing the bleed nipple. Less than £5.

And yes, one side at a time.

keep the reservior full at all times pump the leaver hold it loosen the bleed nipple close the nipple release the leaver keep repeting this untill the new fluid start comming out then do the other side clean the diafram washer when you are finnished dont get any on the paint work. best to change the hoses for braids to while your at it

Originally Posted by mac650s

pump the leaver hold it loosen the bleed nipple close the nipple release the leaver keep repeting this untill the new fluid start comming out

What's this all about??

Just put the bleeding tube slightly over the nipple and then loosen the nipple and push the tube fully on and then start pumping away til the new luid comes through... repeat on the other side and then once done, i have heard that it is a good idea to go back to the first side and do it again...(if you have a hose splitter (which if your running on standard lines you will have))....

may be worth holding the lever in over night with a watch or something then in the morning undo the resevoir cap and giving the bike a little shake just to make sure that all the air is out.

Originally Posted by mac650s

keep the reservior full at all times pump the leaver hold it loosen the bleed nipple close the nipple release the leaver keep repeting this untill the new fluid start comming out then do the other side clean the diafram washer when you are finnished dont get any on the paint work. best to change the hoses for braids to while your at it

Another one that needs to be pointed in the direction of the comma and taught how to use punctuation, the use of a spell checker or dictionary wouldn't go amiss either.

By the way the comma (which looks like this , ) is next to the full stop key on your keyboard.

HTH.

Originally Posted by Muttley

By the way the comma (which looks like this , ) is next to the full stop key on your keyboard.

And what does the fullstop look like?

mac650s seems to have a grasp on the use of the full stop, so I didn't see much point in mentioning.

scoobs..... i think the full stop looks like this )

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Originally Posted by Muttley

Another one that needs to be pointed in the direction of the comma and taught how to use punctuation, the use of a spell checker or dictionary wouldn't go amiss either.

By the way the comma (which looks like this , ) is next to the full stop key on your keyboard.

HTH.

Looking at your post , I'd say you should have a full stop after 'punctuation'

Cheers
Ben

Originally Posted by DeeJay

scoobs..... i think the full stop looks like this )

Thanks DeeJ)