| Well, it's done. In the end, I had to resort to mechanical aids (oooooooer missus).
A Gunson Eezibleed. It cost £12 summat and is basically a stout polythene bottle with a screwtop that has two tubes attached. One goes to the bottom of the bottle with the other end being screwed into a cap that goes on your master cylinder. The other tube just goes into the cap and has an attachment that you fit on the valve on a 'spare tyre'. As it happened, none of the master cylinder caps they supplied would fit so i had to drill a 10mm hole in the existing brembo cap and make sure that it gave me a pressure tight seal when screwed on to the reservoir.
Then you test it for airtightness, they recomend that you don't use any more than 20 psi, so I let my front tyre down a bit then clipped the thing onto my tyre. I had a bit of a leak but soon sorted that out. Once you have tested it for leaks you fill the bottle with fluid and connect up to the tyre again. This time the air pressure forces brake fluid under pressure through the system. All you have to do is use the bleed nipple as a tap, turn it on to start and turn it off when no air bubles appear in the fluid that's been flushed through. Easy Peasy - all the airlocks dealt with in seconds. You have to make damn sure there are no leaks though cos a geyser of brake fluid at 20 psi spraying at random from somewhere is not a pretty thought.
PS: Monty, I know...I never use it and it doesn't work very well anyway but an accident investigator might like the warm glow that comes from having a token back brake if I had a prang
[Edited on 9-9-2003 by Jools]  |