Abs myth?
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How this turned from me passing on new information that I have gathered over the past few months to a Donkey attacking my business ethics and product knowledge is beyond me........The point of this thread is to update what Ive learned about ABS. I now have experiences under my belt that contradict earlier posts and thought it might be helpful. I will certainly refrain from future posts without getting your seal of approval since you clearly have a broader understanding of motorcycles. Hows that sound Mr. 3,541 post? Deal?
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How this turned from me passing on new information that I have gathered over the past few months to a Donkey attacking my business ethics and product knowledge is beyond me........The point of this thread is to update what Ive learned about ABS. I now have experiences under my belt that contradict earlier posts and thought it might be helpful. I will certainly refrain from future posts without getting your seal of approval since you clearly have a broader understanding of motorcycles. Hows that sound Mr. 3,541 post? Deal?
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I would have to agree with the above on this one. I would rather learn from others that have tackled various jobs on our bikes and learn the outcome. We, the folks reading can make the decision if it is something we can handle or need to take the bike in. It all varies to each one of our abilities I guess. Information and many of the step by step instructions on here make that a possibility. A few that standout that I have recently read were the pics and play by play of R/R of the gas filter, cams and a S/E compensator.
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Wow! This thread turned crazy! As long as you don't introduce air into the ABS module the digital tech is not needed. If you do, the brakes won't fail they will just be spongy because the the air bubbles will not pass through the module and ABS will not function. If that is the case then take the bike to the dealer and have them put it on the digital tech. The digital tech rapidly pulses the ABS module forcing air out of it. If you change the upper line and bleed all of the air out before connecting to the ABS module then there is no issue. If you replace lower lines and keep fluid in the line so no air is pulled into the module then again you're fine. You just can't bleed brakes the traditional way when replacing lines with ABS. You need to do it one line at a time. Some guys even bleed them the traditional way and get lucky and are able to pull the air through the ABS module and have no problems.
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Wow! This thread turned crazy! As long as you don't introduce air into the ABS module the digital tech is not needed. If you do, the brakes won't fail they will just be spongy because the the air bubbles will not pass through the module and ABS will not function. If that is the case then take the bike to the dealer and have them put it on the digital tech. The digital tech rapidly pulses the ABS module forcing air out of it. If you change the upper line and bleed all of the air out before connecting to the ABS module then there is no issue. If you replace lower lines and keep fluid in the line so no air is pulled into the module then again you're fine. You just can't bleed brakes the traditional way when replacing lines with ABS. You need to do it one line at a time. Some guys even bleed them the traditional way and get lucky and are able to pull the air through the ABS module and have no problems.
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I changed out my bars and bled with Mityvac no problems no digitech needed and I'm a novice
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Cruiser
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Also hilarious line, who cares if its true or not I am going to use that on my even more novice buddies =)
