I am covered in brake fluid-Picture added to help find part!

[yuri2085]

After my efforts and complications sorting out my brakes, I finally have everything cleaned (well, as good as) new pads, and brakes bled.

So i went for a little ride to bed in the brakes, only a mile or so (front wheel was stiff was hoping this would sort it out).
This was yesterday, today I got all kitted up decided I would like a nice long ride and then i noticed that the resovoir did not have a cap :s.

So off for a little cycle and I found the metal top section in the middle of the road on some hatchings dented and battered from being run over. (5 mins with a hammer made it reasonable)
After spending 20 mins riding around the immediate area looking in the gutters etc I gave up on finding the plastic insert (the rubber bit was still neatly in the resovoir).
Now I am sitting here praying that when I go for a ride in a min I wont be getting brake fluid anywhere because finding a replacement insert seems an impossibility.

Joy

[Thom]

put a piece of cling film over the top and wrap it around your master cylinder followed by an elastic band. this will contain it until you can source a new cap and SHOULD keep moisture out.

Yeah, ive done the same thing in the past.
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[Kickstart]

Hi

Be very careful. The rubber diaphragm is there to allow some air in to take up the space vacated by fluid being used (as the pads wear). Without a vent to the space above the diaphragm it cannot take up this space, and will thus not be able to allow extra fluid into the lines to take up the space. You brakes will have more and more play.

It could well be that the vent is part of the plastic bit you have lost.

All the best

Keith
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[Wozza]

So, are you covered in brake fluid or not?

[The999Kid]

i suggest if he is actually covered in brake fluid that he rapidly remove all affected clothes and get the hose pipe sharpish.... if that stuff can stain tarmac i'd hate to see its effects on human skin!
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[Wozza]

I hope he didn't get it all over his tank as well.

[iooi]

Time to change the fluid as well, as it absords moisture very well and that will not help braking at all....
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[tutton]

Great paintstripper aint it...
spilled some old stuff when i was taking some old fluid out my bike and wondered why my shoe was sticking to the floor, had melted all the paint up
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[Scotsman37]

Go to to your nearest bike dealer or scrappy and get a replacement part and be more carefull the next time !

Or tell us make, model no and year of bike and maybe one of us will find where you can get that brake reservior's rubber diaghram?

[s44678]

[Hutchysrs50]

[nowhere.elysium]

Yeah, it makes your hands feel really fucking weird, if you get any on them. It doesn't do anything particularly nasty to your skin (apart from making it really slithery), but it is toxic as hell, so it's best to wash it off immediately to avoid any accidental ingestion.
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[tutton]

lies G all lies.
i spilt it out of my rear MC res on purpose on the floor, 5 minutes later and i can wipe a tissue over the floor lifting up old paint. not laquered obviously as this is a floor tho!
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[Hutchysrs50]

[Tristan.]

I drained the FZRs system with a syringe then dribbled it all over my CBs tank, wich is unlacquered matt black. 4 days and not a mark on it.

Brake fluid is shit at stripping paint.

[yuri2085]

Well I had it all over my hands, and when I went to test if it would work wihtout the plastic insert there was much leackage but luckily none on my tank

I read the hazard info from it and only said might cause slight irritation to skin so its not that bad stuff.

I have the diaphragm but there is a plastic piece between the diaphragm and the metal lid which is missing.
I also have the lid but its a little dented and could be contributing to the leak. I imagine the diagphram SHOULD form a seal but the plastic piece perhaps keeps the seal when under stress.

Bike is 1999 bandit 600 (unfaired)

Glad your all so worried about my health

edit: and I have put in a request at 'bikesparefinder.co.uk' which has asked 6 brokers, but if any of you guys happen to have the lid and/or the plastic jiggy would be much appreciated
Thanks

[yuri2085]

https://i638.photobucket.com/albums/uu110/yuri2085/brakefluid.jpg

I can draw! woo