i agree with the use of a small oil pump forcing the brake fluid in from the
bottom. I tried using gravity to bleed my clevelands from the top and never
could get them to work. used a small oil pump and bled them from the bottom
with no problem...robert
On Tuesday, October 18, 2016 1:42 PM, Jeff Scott via KRnet <krnet at
list.krnet.org> wrote:
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> I have Cleveland wheels and calipers with Suzuki GSXR 750 brake cylinders.
> The brake cylinders are a custom heal brake configuration mounted
> horizontally.
Are the brake cylinders fed fluid by a remote reservoir that's mounted
higher than the cylinders, or are the reservoirs built into the
cylinders? If there's no reservoir mounted higher and filled with fluid,
air bubbles in the cylinders are a real possibility.
My experience has been that bleeding the brakes is best done with a
simple mechanical oil pump, think oil squirting gun with a plastic tube
on the end, or even a pressurized garden sprayer, filling from the brake
bleeder and up through the rest of the system. This way, air bubbles
are carried up (their natural direction), and if there's a leak
somewhere it becomes apparent. If pulling a vacuum from the top of the
system, if you have a leak it will suck in air bubbles, and it will not
be obvious if it's a small leak.
Mark Langford, Harvest, AL
ML "at" N56ML.com
www.N56ML.com[http://www.N56ML.com]
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Exactly the same as I recommend.? I find that a small pump oil squirt can is
more than enough to completely fill one side including the reservoir.
In an effort to learn something about the Suzuki GSXR 750 brake cylinders, I
did a google search and found a large recall of those master cylinders due to
an incorrectly placed port between the master cylinder and built in reservoir
causing the master cylinder to trap air.? I don't suppose you happened to get a
screaming good deal in a set of recalled master cylinders????
<http://cycles.dev03.questus.com/~/media/Recalls/2004-2013%20GSX-R%20Master%20Cylinder%20Recall%20Notice.pdf>
-Jeff Scott
Los Alamos, NM
-Jeff Scott
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