Rear Brake Bleed Problem
Road Warrior
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From: Ottawa, Ontario
I'm not even sure how I got mine to work with the caliper on the bike. I broke a vacuum pump and a cheaper bleed kit trying, though. What ended up working was the business-end of a windex bottle, some clear tubing, and a lot of beer.
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From: Bedford UK
By contrast I recently installed a new calliper and braided hose on my bike, bled it a few times the old fashioned way, expecting to have to get down to it and the darned thing was done. I don't recall ever having such instant success and certainly haven't since! There is no certainty in my long experience when it comes to bleeding bl33ding brakes!
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Speed Bleeders are so simple yet so awesome. www.speedbleeders.com. For 7 bucks a wheel you cant beat the ability to bleed any break caliper without an assistant. I used to get a real hard functional front brake and spongy on occasion. I installed new DOT5 as the original brake fluid was 2006 and all is normal. I've had 100,000+ mile cars and trucks never changing the brake fluid and it worked perfectly fine. Guess its a DOT5 thing.
Road Warrior
Joined: Mar 2010
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From: Ottawa, Ontario
Speed Bleeders are so simple yet so awesome. www.speedbleeders.com. For 7 bucks a wheel you cant beat the ability to bleed any break caliper without an assistant. I used to get a real hard functional front brake and spongy on occasion. I installed new DOT5 as the original brake fluid was 2006 and all is normal. I've had 100,000+ mile cars and trucks never changing the brake fluid and it worked perfectly fine. Guess its a DOT5 thing.
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Joined: Apr 2013
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From: East texas
I have an 04 XLC and had hell after rebuilding my master cylinder gettingthe air bubbles out of the lines, it took a couple of days worth of bleedingthe lines. Just a reminder to only use DOT 5 (purple) on the 04 XLC, I thinksome of the other year XL's take the DOT 4 (not entirely sure on this, but itseems like I’ve read that someplace).
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My '07 takes DOT 4.
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