UnsafeAlpine
07-31-09, 01:04 PM
If anyone has some knowledge of motorcycle maintenance, I sure could use some help. If not, maybe I'll try to find a motorcycle forum...
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KingTermite
07-31-09, 01:05 PM
http://wwwbruegge.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/twiki/pub/Lehrstuhl/POMSS09/zen.jpeg
-=(8)=-
07-31-09, 01:09 PM
Whats the problem ?
Im sure I can help :)
Im sure I can help :)
UnsafeAlpine
07-31-09, 01:09 PM
http://wwwbruegge.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/twiki/pub/Lehrstuhl/POMSS09/zen.jpeg
I've read it. It says absolutely nothing about why my master cylinder isn't working. Stupid book. :P
I've read it. It says absolutely nothing about why my master cylinder isn't working. Stupid book. :P
KingTermite
07-31-09, 01:11 PM
I've read it. It says absolutely nothing about why my master cylinder isn't working. Stupid book. :P
Didn't you see the chapter on engine rebuilding toward the end? :p :innocent:
Didn't you see the chapter on engine rebuilding toward the end? :p :innocent:
UnsafeAlpine
07-31-09, 01:11 PM
Whats the problem ?
Im sure I can help :)
Just rebuilt my master cylinder and it's not working. No fluid is being pumped out. I honed the bore and all of the seals are new. There's no leaking coming from anywhere, it's just not being pumped out.
Im sure I can help :)
Just rebuilt my master cylinder and it's not working. No fluid is being pumped out. I honed the bore and all of the seals are new. There's no leaking coming from anywhere, it's just not being pumped out.
UnsafeAlpine
07-31-09, 01:13 PM
Didn't you see the chapter on engine rebuilding toward the end? :p :innocent:
http://sneezingcow.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/truck-hc-c.jpg
This is a fun read for anyone that's tried to restore anything. It's less philosophical than Zen and more mechanical, but he chronicles how his life was taken over by this "simple" project. Great book.
http://sneezingcow.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/truck-hc-c.jpg
This is a fun read for anyone that's tried to restore anything. It's less philosophical than Zen and more mechanical, but he chronicles how his life was taken over by this "simple" project. Great book.
KingTermite
07-31-09, 01:17 PM
It's less philosophical than Zen
Philosophical? Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance?
I skipped over the philosophical stuff.
It was a good foreward to the story. :rolleyes:
Philosophical? Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance?
I skipped over the philosophical stuff.
It was a good foreward to the story. :rolleyes:
UnsafeAlpine
07-31-09, 01:18 PM
Philosophical? Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance?
I skipped over the philosophical stuff.
It was a good foreward to the story. :rolleyes:
I hear you're supposed to read Zen two times. The first time, read it for the road trip, the second time, read it for the philosophy.
I haven't gotten around to reading it a second time. :o
I skipped over the philosophical stuff.
It was a good foreward to the story. :rolleyes:
I hear you're supposed to read Zen two times. The first time, read it for the road trip, the second time, read it for the philosophy.
I haven't gotten around to reading it a second time. :o
-=(8)=-
07-31-09, 01:19 PM
Hmmmmm.......
Spoke too soon, I guess.
In brake stuff, 95% of the time its airbubbles screwing with stuff.
I always do stuff by process of elimination. Disconnect the caliper
and pump the lever to make sure the fluid is even moving.
Is the plunger thingee in the kit made for overbore ?
Spoke too soon, I guess.
In brake stuff, 95% of the time its airbubbles screwing with stuff.
I always do stuff by process of elimination. Disconnect the caliper
and pump the lever to make sure the fluid is even moving.
Is the plunger thingee in the kit made for overbore ?
UnsafeAlpine
07-31-09, 01:22 PM
Hmmmmm.......
Spoke too soon, I guess.
In brake stuff, 95% of the time its airbubbles screwing with stuff.
I always do stuff by process of elimination. Disconnect the caliper
and pump the lever to make sure the fluid is even moving.
Is the plunger thingee in the kit made for overbore ?
It's not overbore, just honed. No fluid is moving, though. I'm thinking of trying a different way of bleeding it, though...
Spoke too soon, I guess.
In brake stuff, 95% of the time its airbubbles screwing with stuff.
I always do stuff by process of elimination. Disconnect the caliper
and pump the lever to make sure the fluid is even moving.
Is the plunger thingee in the kit made for overbore ?
It's not overbore, just honed. No fluid is moving, though. I'm thinking of trying a different way of bleeding it, though...
jsharr
07-31-09, 01:22 PM
brakes are for wussy
UnsafeAlpine
07-31-09, 01:24 PM
brakes are for wussy
I once thought that. The skull facture, missing teeth, dangling eye, and brain damage said differently. God, I'll miss that girl... :innocent:
I once thought that. The skull facture, missing teeth, dangling eye, and brain damage said differently. God, I'll miss that girl... :innocent:
KingTermite
07-31-09, 01:25 PM
I hear you're supposed to read Zen two times. The first time, read it for the road trip, the second time, read it for the philosophy.
I haven't gotten around to reading it a second time. :o
I only read it once as well....and I took the philosophy away from the story. I'm not sure I could read it again....it's a slow read because of the philosophy content.
Anyway, enough thread derailment....back to motorcycle fixy uppy stuff.
I haven't gotten around to reading it a second time. :o
I only read it once as well....and I took the philosophy away from the story. I'm not sure I could read it again....it's a slow read because of the philosophy content.
Anyway, enough thread derailment....back to motorcycle fixy uppy stuff.
KingTermite
07-31-09, 01:25 PM
I once thought that. The skull facture, missing teeth, dangling eye, and brain damage said differently. God, I'll miss that girl... :innocent:
Make sure you note that in the back of your mind somewhere, <3 2 ride. :innocent:
Make sure you note that in the back of your mind somewhere, <3 2 ride. :innocent:
-=(8)=-
07-31-09, 01:27 PM
brakes are for wussy
Im more intouch with my bike and surrounding while riding brakeless.
The old lady I just missed at the last intersection and rearend'r I
just caused are really comfortable knowing I am a well connected rider :thumb:
On topic....
Clamp/bungee the lever with the hose in a cup of brakefluid and see if
time/pressure dont drive the offending demons out over the course of
an hour or so ?
Im more intouch with my bike and surrounding while riding brakeless.
The old lady I just missed at the last intersection and rearend'r I
just caused are really comfortable knowing I am a well connected rider :thumb:
On topic....
Clamp/bungee the lever with the hose in a cup of brakefluid and see if
time/pressure dont drive the offending demons out over the course of
an hour or so ?
UnsafeAlpine
07-31-09, 01:29 PM
Im more intouch with my bike and surrounding while riding brakeless.
The old lady I just missed at the last intersection and rearend'r I
just caused are really comfortable knowing I am a well connected rider :thumb:
On topic....
Clamp/bungee the lever with the hose in a cup of brakefluid and see if
time/pressure dont drive the offending demons out over the course of
an hour or so ?
hmmm.... I'll try this other idea and if it doesn't work, then maybe I'll let it sit.
The old lady I just missed at the last intersection and rearend'r I
just caused are really comfortable knowing I am a well connected rider :thumb:
On topic....
Clamp/bungee the lever with the hose in a cup of brakefluid and see if
time/pressure dont drive the offending demons out over the course of
an hour or so ?
hmmm.... I'll try this other idea and if it doesn't work, then maybe I'll let it sit.
jsharr
07-31-09, 01:31 PM
Im more intouch with my bike and surrounding while riding brakeless.
The old lady I just missed at the last intersection and rearend'r I
just caused are really comfortable knowing I am a well connected rider :thumb:
On topic....
Clamp/bungee the lever with the hose in a cup of brakefluid and see if
time/pressure dont drive the offending demons out over the course of
an hour or so ?
Look, I did not even stay in a Holiday Inn Express this year. I did my best. Well that is not true either, but it is only UnsafeAlpine we are talking about here.
UA, have you slapped it with the palm of your hand or waved a big ass hammer at it and cussed at it? If so, what words did you use?
The old lady I just missed at the last intersection and rearend'r I
just caused are really comfortable knowing I am a well connected rider :thumb:
On topic....
Clamp/bungee the lever with the hose in a cup of brakefluid and see if
time/pressure dont drive the offending demons out over the course of
an hour or so ?
Look, I did not even stay in a Holiday Inn Express this year. I did my best. Well that is not true either, but it is only UnsafeAlpine we are talking about here.
UA, have you slapped it with the palm of your hand or waved a big ass hammer at it and cussed at it? If so, what words did you use?
UnsafeAlpine
07-31-09, 01:36 PM
Look, I did not even stay in a Holiday Inn Express this year. I did my best. Well that is not true either, but it is only UnsafeAlpine we are talking about here.
UA, have you slapped it with the palm of your hand or waved a big ass hammer at it and cussed at it? If so, what words did you use?
****, ******, ***, ***********, and I even tried *****************************************************!
UA, have you slapped it with the palm of your hand or waved a big ass hammer at it and cussed at it? If so, what words did you use?
****, ******, ***, ***********, and I even tried *****************************************************!
jsharr
07-31-09, 01:39 PM
****, ******, ***, ***********, and I even tried *****************************************************!
Seems like you did it by the book, they should work.
Seems like you did it by the book, they should work.
KingTermite
07-31-09, 01:40 PM
UA, have you slapped it with the palm of your hand or waved a big ass hammer at it and cussed at it? If so, what words did you use?
hehaheehaahehaaa You said ass hammer. :p
hehaheehaahehaaa You said ass hammer. :p
UnsafeAlpine
07-31-09, 02:48 PM
"BFH" is the technical term.
Is bench bleeding required (bleed the MC prior to connecting the brake line to the caliper)? I know it is on a car master cylinder, not sure about the motorbike.
Or have you not connected it to the caliper yet?
I've tried about a hundred different ways. I'm looking at the reservoir now to see if it's blocking the fluid port.
Is bench bleeding required (bleed the MC prior to connecting the brake line to the caliper)? I know it is on a car master cylinder, not sure about the motorbike.
Or have you not connected it to the caliper yet?
I've tried about a hundred different ways. I'm looking at the reservoir now to see if it's blocking the fluid port.
UnsafeAlpine
07-31-09, 05:32 PM
Well, damn. Found out my issue was bleeder error but now the fluid isn't going through the hose... oh well. 1 step forward, 37,943 steps back.
-=(8)=-
07-31-09, 05:38 PM
Well, damn. Found out my issue was bleeder error but now the fluid isn't going through the hose... oh well. 1 step forward, 37,943 steps back.
soak the hose in a pan of fluid, install it, the re-bleed (?)
soak the hose in a pan of fluid, install it, the re-bleed (?)
<3 2 Ride
07-31-09, 10:02 PM
Make sure you note that in the back of your mind somewhere, <3 2 ride. :innocent:
Duly noted, KT. Thanks for the heads up.
Duly noted, KT. Thanks for the heads up.
UnsafeAlpine
07-31-09, 11:16 PM
Woohoo! I have front brakes! Two days of working on this and I've finally gotten it! :D
-=(8)=-
08-01-09, 05:54 AM
:thumb:
What finally fixed it ?
What finally fixed it ?
UnsafeAlpine
08-01-09, 07:20 AM
:thumb:
What finally fixed it ?
A combination of installing the parts correctly, bleeding the master cylinder correctly, soaking the houses, and using a cut up shirt hanger to get the rest of the crap in the hose out.
What finally fixed it ?
A combination of installing the parts correctly, bleeding the master cylinder correctly, soaking the houses, and using a cut up shirt hanger to get the rest of the crap in the hose out.
x136
08-01-09, 12:12 PM
installing the parts correctlyBlasphemy.
UnsafeAlpine
08-01-09, 12:41 PM
Blasphemy.
I originally thought so, too, but apparently it's the only way to do it. Stupid correct installations. :P
I originally thought so, too, but apparently it's the only way to do it. Stupid correct installations. :P