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Best Vendor / Brand for Steel Braided front brake line KDX 200 '90
Foxx4Beaver:
--- Quote from: sandblaster on April 07, 2014, 06:21:37 AM ---
Since we don't have time for doing the gravity method we use the vacuum pump.
We have also had times when the gravity method just wouldn't work.
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surprising....my dad was a mechanic back in the 60's through the 80's....and he showed me that trick when no one was around to help bleed the lines.
I've gravity bled hundreds of brakes consisting of cars/trucks/busses/bikes...never had one not bleed out perfectly. I thought I might have had an issue bleeding the lines on my 04 F150 last fall, but that turned out to be a collapsed rubber line...one of Fords poor designs....but I won't bleed brakes any other way. It only takes 10 minutes per side....I can do the bikes in 5.
Are you sure you're doing it right? :-P
TheGDog:
--- Quote from: Foxx4Beaver on April 07, 2014, 06:54:11 AM ---Are you sure you're doing it right? :-P
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Bleeding brakes is reDONKulously easy!
Master cylinder cap is off... bleeder valve below is snug... pump-pump-pump until feel resistance... hold lever in, do not let it go... un-snug bleeder valve...wait a slight moment... re-snug... then you can relinquish hold on front brake lever and repeat process.
It's always worked like that in the past on the bikes I've done it on.
Foxx4Beaver:
sorry...it wasn't you I was quoting G....I was making a smart a$$ comment to sandblaster :-D
we all have our own ways of doing things....I'll stick with my way since it's never let me down...and there's no work involved my way, other than keeping the reservoir filled. :lol:
TheGDog:
--- Quote from: Foxx4Beaver on April 07, 2014, 07:02:45 AM ---sorry...it wasn't you I was quoting G.
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Thank having been said... I'm stating the procedure correctly... yes?
Foxx4Beaver:
yes...you are doing it one of the correct ways...correctly :wink:
If I remember correctly...I read that Motorrad had a Hell of a time getting his brakes to "feel" right before too...I don't remember if it was the front or backs....but for some reason "caliper pins" come to mind.
Maybe he'll chime back in and tell us the story.
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