If you have no pressure as Graham asked, try this. 1. Turn a 5-gallon bucket upside down by your caliper. 2. Put a jar of old brake fluid on the bucket. If you don't have that, use a half-jar of water. 3. Get some plastic hose. Put one end on the bleeder valve on your bike and the other end in the liquid. You may want to use tape to make sure the hose stays in the jar. 4. Open your master cylinder cap. Make sure there's enough fluid in it so you won't run out and introduce air into the line. 5. Loosen the bleeder valve a little. Do this with the hose still on on it. 6. Start squeezing the hand brake.You should see some bubbles coming out of the caliper. 7. Keep squeezing the brake lever and adding clean brake fluid to the reservoir until no more bubbles are coming out. 8. Tighten the bleeder valve. 9. Squeezing the brake lever should get tight now. It means there's no air in the line anymore. You can take the hose off. 10. Top off the master cylinder to the correct level and put the lid back on.
On my dual-front brake bikes, I just use two buckets and do one and then the other until the lever tightens up. Remember that brake fluid is a great paint remover. Make sure there is no way any brake fluid could possibly drip on a painted surface. I use a painter's drop cloth for protection. Good luck. Glenn -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nighthawk_lovers/b5d317c5-24f8-4cb9-91c0-12aa4404e34a%40googlegroups.com.
