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Ok, I'm sorry to be such a nuisance on this board but I'm about to start bleeding my hydros (deore m525's) and I was wondering if there is anything I should watch for being a newbie and all. I have the instructions here with me, if I follow each step correctly will it be successful or are there some things they don't tell ya in this thing. Thanks.
KleinMp99
04-24-04, 03:37 PM
Ok, I'm sorry to be such a nuisance on this board but I'm about to start bleeding my hydros (deore m525's) and I was wondering if there is anything I should watch for being a newbie and all. I have the instructions here with me, if I follow each step correctly will it be successful or are there some things they don't tell ya in this thing. Thanks.
The instructions you have will work just fine. I just bled my first shimano a couple days ago, and it came out perfect. When I filled the res with oil and pumped the lever hardly anything happend, and then it started sucking the oil in pretty fast, so make sure your watching it. When I was almost done and had the bleed nipple open at the caliper, pulling the lever was of course forcing fluid out, the lever was only a little stiff when it was very close to the bar. When the nipple closed, everything was really solid.