Re: 1978 GL1000 Resto-mod
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2016 12:29 am
It was kinda nice outside after work, so I pulled the 'Wing out of the garage to snap a couple of photos of the current state of progress:
I took a look at the brakes to see if I could find any evidence of leakage, and sure enough, there's a trail of brake fluid at the bleeder valve. Grrrrr!!!! Is there a trick to getting the bleeders to seal? I've had two calipers have the same problem, so I don't think it's a faulty caliper. It seems there's something I'm doing wrong. However, I didn't have nearly this much trouble on my Yamaha calipers...well...once I bought a second pair of calipers, anyway (the bleeders were corroded into the originals, and I wasted a lot of time and effort trying to repair them before simply replacing them).
I took a look at the brakes to see if I could find any evidence of leakage, and sure enough, there's a trail of brake fluid at the bleeder valve. Grrrrr!!!! Is there a trick to getting the bleeders to seal? I've had two calipers have the same problem, so I don't think it's a faulty caliper. It seems there's something I'm doing wrong. However, I didn't have nearly this much trouble on my Yamaha calipers...well...once I bought a second pair of calipers, anyway (the bleeders were corroded into the originals, and I wasted a lot of time and effort trying to repair them before simply replacing them).