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Well finally got her back together... panels and seat sorted..

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Cant get the clutch bled....any suggestions..?

Thinking of spraying it silver with a red seat.?

any help on preping for paint ?
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)Get a g clamp on the slave cylinder and push the piston back in.
That'll push the fluid ( and hopefully air) back into the reservoir.

JUST DO IT SLOWLY, OR YOU'LL SPRAY BRAKE FLUID ALL OVER YOUR PAINTWORK,

best to put an old dust sheet over the bike and put rags around the reservoir.

Then try bleeding again with the clamp in place.

another trick I use is , with the clamp in place, try and orientate the bars so the return hole in the master cylinder is the highest point, then do 4 or 5 quick full stroke pumps (oo er :unibrow: ) and immediatly after this just lightly apply pressure to the lever and you should see small bubbles come out of the return hole in the master cylinder.

repeat until you get a lever, can take some time but you dont waste fluid with this method, and once you get a lever the rest should be easy as the only parts that have fluid in them are the line and the master cylinder.

Hope this helps AND makes sense............. :D
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fang wrote: JUST DO IT SLOWLY, OR YOU'LL SPRAY BRAKE FLUID ALL OVER YOUR PAINTWORK,

Oh and leave the reservoir cap on as well, less chance of an "Old Faithfull" situation :D :D
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Bleed it with the bike level on a paddock stand. Crack the banjo off first and bleed it to there then nip it up and bleed the cylinder.
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Foookin ell Joe...i've been bleedin it for weeks . going to strip it back and do what fang says ...

Hows it going any news on collage ?

Looks like i'm headin off for the TT....my brothers live over there..

what you been upto?
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litle tale about clutch bleeding
there i was in the garrage at oulton on a track day about to set off for my second session when "no clutch" i shreeked unscrewed the top fluid in pumpy pumpy pumpy and even more pumpy but bugger all but farting noises from the bleed nipple like it had a curry from our local indian still more pumping and getting desperate noticed the fluid in the master cylinder wasnt going down took a good look then noticed that yamaha fit a bloody pond liner in the master cylinder
removed, filled, bled,mounted, went on track, fell off(not the clutches fault)
what an idiot
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Lukather wrote:Foookin ell Joe...i've been bleedin it for weeks . going to strip it back and do what fang says ...

Hows it going any news on collage ?

Looks like i'm headin off for the TT....my brothers live over there..

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You need to clamp the pipe then and see if you can get the lever to get feel better. If the lever starts to feel better that rules out your master. Then crack the banjo off at the cylinder and use the banjo as a bleed nipple. When that shows fluid pumping on the lever pull then it will bleed from the nipple mate.

College is good nearly done mate for the barbering. Off to turkey on thursday.. :D
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Post by yzfpaul »

i had a hell of a job bleeding mine
in the end i attached a long peice of pipe to the bleed nipple and filled it with
fluid, the put my air hose on the end and gently blew fluid back up the line
till it started to fill up the reservoir, then did a few bleeds the conventional way
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Seems to be a problem often posted on here. Its just getting the sequence right and it should work every time.

open nipple.
pull lever back and hold back.
close nipple.
release lever.

repeat above over and over.

always keep an eye on fluid level and top up if need.

Its never failed for me. Some people pump lever multiple times to try and get pressure too early and open nipple at the wrong times letting air back into system.
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joeboy wrote:Seems to be a problem often posted on here. Its just getting the sequence right and it should work every time.

open nipple.
pull lever back and hold back.
close nipple.
release lever.

repeat above over and over.

always keep an eye on fluid level and top up if need.

Its never failed for me. Some people pump lever multiple times to try and get pressure too early and open nipple at the wrong times letting air back into system.


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I have done that :retard:

I think there maybe trouble ahead..!
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Post by Willow »

You could try using a syringe to suck some fluid through once you get some through go with joeboy techniquie!
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My fluid level dropped below the spyglass last week and it was sucking air in. Took cap off and filled with fluid put cap back on without the screws. Gave it a few pumps and held lever in and opened nipple. Load of air came out. Did the same again 3 or 4 times and lever was up to pressure again Job done :nod: :nod:
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Post by fang »

G clamp pic for clarification.

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and yes, most people open bleed nipple, pull in lever, release lever, close nipple and wonder why their getting nowhere.

The right sequence is the key!!! :D
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