Braided hoses

[Laura]

right well after deciding that my brakes were dangerous I thought I know lets get phoenix round to bleed them, the day after they were slightly better but not that much so I went to buy new brake pads. Went to get the pads of and their was nothing wrong with them! So I then went to more expense and brought myself a 2 line conversion for the front of the cbr and fit some stainless steel braided lines which we then had to reverse bleed did anyone else have this problem when fitting braided lines? Oh and the yare now top banana!
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[Kickstart]

Hi

Yes, totally new lines can be a pain to bleed through. I think the problem is that there is a lot of air in there, and with that much it just compresses rather than pumping through.

One thing that does help is to leave the line off at the caliper end, and put it into a pot of clean fluid. Then pump the brakes. There is so little resistance doing this that it should get the fluid through the lines fairly easily. Then bolt the lines in place (trying to avoid any fluid coming out of them) and bleed them through normally.

All the best

Keith
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[Dusty]

I had to use a big syringe to pump fluid into my my callipers when I fitted braided lines to my R6.
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