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different way to bleed brakes on 1000 forks
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<blockquote data-quote="joedrum" data-source="post: 173824" data-attributes="member: 98"><p>well went through mu brakes on the hooch bike ....bleeding brakes is such a pain it seems...so tried something else and it worked great and was instant compared to other ways ....</p><p></p><p>ill call this the back bleed method ...ok the way to push the most fluid at one time ...is not with the master cylinder or at the bar ...its very small and also works agains gravity when trying to get air out of line and also ..on front systems you habe the y in the lines where air can hang up...and never bleed rigjt ...</p><p></p><p>so what i did was use the caliper piston as my pusher of fluid ...volume is huge com pared to master lever...it has the absolutlely fantasic bonas of clearing the return hole in master ...wiitch can be a nightmare to do other ways....it pushes fluid uphill and air travels stait to resevor and out ...you dont have to keep filling the fluid level......</p><p></p><p>by leaving one brake on rotor on front set ups....you can take other off ....take pads off ...qnd using c clamp push piston all the way in .....then pump brake piston back up ...using c clamp to relax piston without pushing it all the way out.....now you have fullest load of fluid to push in right direction for air to get out of resivor at master....first thing that happened was ..it locks other brake up on rotor and then was hard to push ...return hole was blocked ..so i applied all the pressure icould on the c clamp to piston ...in less than a minute return block gave up... and piston cranked down all the way....filled piston again and repeated ...them reassemble brake on that side...them took other side brake off and did same thing ...never added fluid at all ..went out and tested on a test ride ..front brakes were totally air free and solid as lever as ive ever had ...i mean no air in system at all ...sheesh i was amazed how well this ...thought id past it on to forum....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="joedrum, post: 173824, member: 98"] well went through mu brakes on the hooch bike ....bleeding brakes is such a pain it seems...so tried something else and it worked great and was instant compared to other ways .... ill call this the back bleed method ...ok the way to push the most fluid at one time ...is not with the master cylinder or at the bar ...its very small and also works agains gravity when trying to get air out of line and also ..on front systems you habe the y in the lines where air can hang up...and never bleed rigjt ... so what i did was use the caliper piston as my pusher of fluid ...volume is huge com pared to master lever...it has the absolutlely fantasic bonas of clearing the return hole in master ...wiitch can be a nightmare to do other ways....it pushes fluid uphill and air travels stait to resevor and out ...you dont have to keep filling the fluid level...... by leaving one brake on rotor on front set ups....you can take other off ....take pads off ...qnd using c clamp push piston all the way in .....then pump brake piston back up ...using c clamp to relax piston without pushing it all the way out.....now you have fullest load of fluid to push in right direction for air to get out of resivor at master....first thing that happened was ..it locks other brake up on rotor and then was hard to push ...return hole was blocked ..so i applied all the pressure icould on the c clamp to piston ...in less than a minute return block gave up... and piston cranked down all the way....filled piston again and repeated ...them reassemble brake on that side...them took other side brake off and did same thing ...never added fluid at all ..went out and tested on a test ride ..front brakes were totally air free and solid as lever as ive ever had ...i mean no air in system at all ...sheesh i was amazed how well this ...thought id past it on to forum.... [/QUOTE]
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