hiya people, I have an 04 Mille and have a problem with the back brake. I have tried bleeding it and adjusting it pads are fine. Here is my problem, bike parked up off and the brake works fine, start it up and take her down the road and it just disappears. park up and 10 mins later you have a brake until i ride off again. any ideas????
Joined Jul 2009
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Sauchie near Stirling in Scotland
Hi m8 when you bled it did you take the caliper off and turn it upside down to bleed whilst having something in between the pads ?????
Later models use a heat shield around the brake master...helps a bit but as said you need to remove the brake caliper ..also i found that air can get trapped at the master itself so be sure that its sitting in such a way that the air can get through it whilst bleeding it.....reverse bleeding works well
nice one german ill be attempting it tomorrow, whats the best thing to use as a spacer for the calipers?
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Isle Of Wight
I've got this one http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Mityvac-MV850...t=UK_Hand_Tools_Equipment&hash=item35b1ed0f79 . But you can get cheaper ones.
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Joined Jul 2009
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Sauchie near Stirling in Scotland
you need to get a shiney set of rearsets(it relocates the master cylinder) i was forever bleeding my rear brake,i aint blead them since i fitted them look trick too
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Mine kept failing its mot cos of poor back brake,bled it times.Fix in the end was to make a heat shield for the master cylinder,also bought some exhaust bandage and wrapped the pipe that runs next to it,works fine now. Seems that the fluid is boiling in the master,aparently you can put dot5.1 in and this will cure it as it has a higher boiling point.
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