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KillerB
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Post subject: Front Brake Bleeding Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 12:27 pm |
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Joined: Thu Apr 14, 2005 12:00 am Posts: 97 Location: Ontario, Canada
model: 907 I.E.
year: 1991
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DesmoDog
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 2:00 pm |
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Joined: Sun Feb 27, 2005 12:00 am Posts: 244 Location: Dexter, MI USA
model: 907 I.E.
year: 1991
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KillerB
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 5:28 pm |
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Joined: Thu Apr 14, 2005 12:00 am Posts: 97 Location: Ontario, Canada
model: 907 I.E.
year: 1991
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KillerB
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 1:11 pm |
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Joined: Thu Apr 14, 2005 12:00 am Posts: 97 Location: Ontario, Canada
model: 907 I.E.
year: 1991
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I followed your tip, DesmoDog, by putting the bike on the side stand. About two minutes of gentle squeezing and all the air bubbles were gone :thumbup: . Thank-you. The Queen B spent about an hour the night before squeezing the lever while I worked on the bleed valves, so she just about killed me when I told her how easy it went.
jcslocum, that coffee can vacuum pump is going into the old shop memory book for future use.
Regards, B
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DesmoDog
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 3:41 pm |
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Joined: Sun Feb 27, 2005 12:00 am Posts: 244 Location: Dexter, MI USA
model: 907 I.E.
year: 1991
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I'm glad it worked out! :thumbup: The more I thought about it, the more sure I was that I had to do this on my 907 and not my 900. Mainly because I remembered a little episode where this happened to me.
For me it was the clutch I was having trouble with. I bled it a bunch of times. Then I decided the master cylinder had gone bad and rebuilt that (after an ordeal trying to get the correct parts, but that's another story). Still no good. Then as I was contemplating rebuilding the slave cylinder, I remembered what I had to do the last time I changed fluid in the clutch. D'oh!
I tipped the bike, slowly pumped the lever... problem solved.
I later bled the clutch on my 900ss like this when I had to rebuild the slave cylinder and toasted the banjo bolt in the process. It was a holiday weekend so no shop was open. The only replacement bolt I had didn't have a bleeder on it, but I wanted to ride, so I figured what the heck? It worked fine, but I wonder what the next owner thought when he went to change the fluid and couldn't find a bleeder anywhere???? :confused:
_________________ -Craig
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