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Brake bleeding

Discussion in 'The Pub' started by risky, Aug 25, 2013.

  1. Phil

    Phil Senior Member Contributing Member

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    No, I didn't have any fuchs left, so I used some Nulon. There was some serious amount of sediment in the rear brake, front wasn't too bad. Think the brake fluid hadn't been change for awhile, pretty dark. Will grab a Fuchs bottle when I go to Bursons next.
     
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    Just did a quick run to the shopping centre and good time to check the brakes out. Front are awesome, as good as I could hope for, however the rear just don't seem that good. Got home and pulled the rear brakes off to check, pads are great, plenty of movement on the pistons, might give them another bleed and see if that helps.:headbang:
     
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    phil, pop the pistons out as they may have a build up of corrosion and gunk, and may have deposits of sediment behind them. (this happened to mine and made one of the pistons go "lazy" creating odd braking
     
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    Will check that out, thanks.:thumb_ups:
     

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