Bleeding Brakes

[sand4ever]

Alright so I just got the brakes on my wifes blaster. As some may know I have added the banshee brakes to it. The front and back master cylinders have rebuild kits in them and they will not build pressure. It was not this hard on my banshee to bleed them. But on this one it seems like no pressure in the masters. Anyone have an idea to make this easy on me. Something to check why it isn't working correctly. I am at ends wit,

someone help me out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks

[Justintoxicated]

Interesting my banshee brakes were a bitch to bleed when I replaced the lines too my and my friend like 2 hours! Autozone has this pressure pump that will pull the fluid through the brake lines. you plug it in near the brake hub and suck the fluid through the line, its way easier than pumping the levers... It works so well that you can easily suck all the fluid out of the resevior and have to start over lol. It sounds like you have some air in the line. This device will suck it all out, just have someone handy to keep the resevoir full.

 

I think it is called a Vacuum Pump

[differentstrokes]

I've got one of the bleeders you're talking about, it's called a Mityvac. That thing makes it way easier to pump brakes, 5 minutes and you're done. It's worth the $35-40 dollars because it can be used to siphon gas and a few other things too if you think you may never bleed brakes again. Any Autozone or O'Reily's will have one.

[cam2]

when i put a +4 swinger on my shee i also put on a braided break line. i couldn't get it to build pressure until i put a hose on the bleeder valve with it turned opened and put the other end into a bowl of fresh fluid. after i did that it didn't take long to build pressure. once it starts building pressure and starts taking fluid out of the fluid reservoir you you can close the valve, make sure there's enough fluid in the reservoir then bleed the lines like you normally would.

[badassbanshee479]

I had this happen on my buddys banshee, we took the banjo bolt out of the master cylinder and I held my thumb over the hole on the master cylinder, then I slowly pumped the brakes till it started pushing fluid out of the hole. It also back bled a bunch of air into the rezy. Then we hooked the line back up and it took 5 min to bleed the system.

[dajogejr]

Do yourself a favor and buy a vaccuum pump from an auto parts store....

I went through this when I put my 14 over arm and LONG braided brake line on.

I disassembled my whole rear brake...and could not get it to bleed for the life of me.

 

Really simple and easy to use, and is the only way to fly for bleeding bike brakes.

I think MitiVac is the name of the kit, like 30 or 40 bucks...and you can use it on cars, bikes...etc.

[Snopczynski]

make sure the lines are as vertical as possible, any place where they are horizontal will trap air.