help bleeding brakes
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help bleeding brakes
Ive searched on here for info on bleeding the brakes and still cant get them to work. Am i doing this correct. First i fill the master cylinder i then slowly pump the lever a couple of times then hold it in, i then release the bleader and then tighten it and then do it again. How many times should you do this before refilling the master cylinder. Ive been at this for awhile and have almost gone through an entire botlle.
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RE: help bleeding brakes
When you open the bleeder, you want to close it before the lever collapses all the way to the bar. You gotta be quick. If you let the lever travel all the way down, you are gonna draw in air.
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RE: help bleeding brakes
ORIGINAL: clayman
YEA. I got one. But thanks for the help and next time take the time and energy it took to come up with that response and go @#$% yourself!!
YEA. I got one. But thanks for the help and next time take the time and energy it took to come up with that response and go @#$% yourself!!
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RE: help bleeding brakes
ORIGINAL: thebestofindica
One word for you, "Service Manual."
One word for you, "Service Manual."
What the hell is with people who respond with that crap. If all we ever did was refer to the service manual, this site would get about a tenth of the traffic that it does, and it would be a dull freakin place. This site is about COMMUNITY and BROTHERHOOD... you know, PEOPLE helping PEOPLE? Not people pointing to the freakin manual.
Rant over...
Regarding your brakes: I had trouble with mine and here's the tip I got from here that solved my problem within five minutes. Air bubbles get trapped in the master cylinder housing, down where all the pumpin' is goin' on. Do your pump and release thing a few times, then hold the brake lever all the way in. Now take a plastic handled screwdriver and, with the master cylinder cover removed, tap the front-bottom edge of the master cylinder over and over with the platic handle and watch all the little bubbles come to the surface. Do this till no more come up and... repeat the process. If you're having the same trouble I was, then you'll have brakes in no time.
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From: bob_beale@bellsouth.net
RE: help bleeding brakes
Go to Sears--buy a Mitey-Vac pump for $35. This makes bleeding the brakes quick work---what you're trying to do is the po' mans way. Get the tool--you'll use it more than once I promise you. And it does the job right the first time.
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RE: help bleeding brakes
trick I heard about, and that worked was to take a couple of tie wraps, and use them to hold the brake lever about halfway depressed. Put the cover on loose, and leave it alone phor awhile.
When you come back, most, if not all of the air in the line will have worked it's way up the brake line, and bubbled out.
Although it sounds like you have used way more phluid then neccesary.
Which kind are you using? DOT4 I hope.
When you come back, most, if not all of the air in the line will have worked it's way up the brake line, and bubbled out.
Although it sounds like you have used way more phluid then neccesary.
Which kind are you using? DOT4 I hope.
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RE: help bleeding brakes
Thanks for the info and support, i just went to the parts store and bought on of those mityvacs and am going to try it, list price here in canada $144 i got it for $56 hopefully worth the money.