The rear brake line guide on my ST had somehow bent at a right angle to where it should be and rubbed a gouge into the rear brake line. Now I never use the rear brake apart from the occasional hill start, but even so I thought I'd better replace it with a Goodridge hose as part of a general fettle this week. But do you think I can bleed the thing
Now I've bled brakes many times before and here is what I'm doing.
1. Filled the reservoir with fresh fluid
2. Fitted a clear tube over the bleed nipple - with the end in a jar of fluid
3. Pressed the lever down slowly 3 - 4 times - hold it down on the last stroke
4. Open the bleed nipple 1/4 turn
5. Close the bleed nipple
6. Repeat the above until the lever firms up and no bubbles appear in the used fluid jar.
I can't even get the fluid through the system, and the reservoir level ain't moving.
Because I've obviously opened the whole circuit up to the air I even went to the extreme of detaching the line at the master cylinder end, opening up the bleed nipple, holding the line almost vertical and carefully pouring fluid straight down the tube until fluid started to weep from the bleed nipple. Then I closed the nipple, gave the brake caliper a few taps, flicked the line a few times and kept topping up the bare line over a period of about 5 mins until it wouldn't take any more and all the bubbles had stopped coming to the surface. I hoped that this would partially 'prime' the system. Lost a few drops putting the line back on but I'm still back to no fluid getting through at all
Any ideas from the more mecanically ept...assuming that ept is the opposite of inept.