Front brake - trapped air
GPZ1100ABS
gpz1100abs at gmail.com
Sat Jul 21 02:24:40 PDT 2012
Last winter I did the front callipers with cleaning, new seals etc.
During this process I inadvertently got some air into one the brake
hoses. I bled the system using a compressor connected sucking device but
the brake lever has since felt 'spongy' - not hard the way it was
before. It hasn't got any worse, but it sure hasn't got any better
either, so I've spent a couple of evenings trying to fix it. Again I
have used the compressor and sucked almost a liter of new brake fluid
through the system, first through one of the bleed valves, then the
other. This did not make any difference at all. Then I did it the old
way - which is also described in the ABS supplement - by squeezing the
brake lever-opening the bleed valve-closing the bleed valve-releasing
the brake lever repeatedly (my hand is partly paralysed today:-\ ). I
had a plastic hose attached to the bleed valve and saw a couple of tiny
air bubbles during the process, but I'm still not satisfied. There's
gotta be some trapped air in there somewhere. The supplement says 'tap
the brake hoses lightly', but other than that it just says that bleeding
an ABS bike takes longer time and requires more patience. I have flushed
the system with almost two liters of new brake fluid now - there can't
possibly be that much fluid in the system? During both processes I had
my wife top up the brake fluid reservoir continuously, so I'm sure that
it is not new air. Furthermore the processes were done quite quickly so
I don't think a bubble could have remained floating in the system.
I have come to the point where I don't know what to do next - except
turn it over to the dealer and ask them to do it. Before I do that - has
anyone tried this? And has THE trick about how to get the last air
bubble out of the system?
Many thanks in advance:-)
Ped
'96 "Black Stealth" GPZ (ABS)
Denmark
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