1 Brakes again Wed Feb 03, 2016 10:31 pm
Packo
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Replacing standard front brakes with 4pot Brembos
After bleeding I can get a hard lever but if I keep the pressure on after say 20 minutes the lever will ease further back to the throttle grip. I have searched the old posts and have tried turning to left lock, tying the lever back overnight, hanging the calipers upside down with pistons pushed out as far as possible. I have been bleeding them only in the normal manner ie. from the bleed nipple at the caliper. I believe they can be bled in the other direction but not sure how to do it.
Open to suggestions
Don't know if this may be effecting things but the calipers are not seated perfectly central over the rotors- they are about 1mm off centre. The result being that the inside pair of pistons are pushing the pad a different distance to the outside ones. I can doctor them up to sit centrally to the rotor with a bit of work but if it is not going to make a difference I won't bother.
Please let me know what you think
After bleeding I can get a hard lever but if I keep the pressure on after say 20 minutes the lever will ease further back to the throttle grip. I have searched the old posts and have tried turning to left lock, tying the lever back overnight, hanging the calipers upside down with pistons pushed out as far as possible. I have been bleeding them only in the normal manner ie. from the bleed nipple at the caliper. I believe they can be bled in the other direction but not sure how to do it.
Open to suggestions
Don't know if this may be effecting things but the calipers are not seated perfectly central over the rotors- they are about 1mm off centre. The result being that the inside pair of pistons are pushing the pad a different distance to the outside ones. I can doctor them up to sit centrally to the rotor with a bit of work but if it is not going to make a difference I won't bother.
Please let me know what you think
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