My BABY got new brake-juice after 12 years !!

[FLATSIX]

Hello to all,

I finally managed to put new DOT4 into the brakesystem after 12 years. What came out was like the pipi of a very ill man : completely dark yellow !

I did it with the tool : migty vack.

Have a couple of questions :

-first of all you have to turn the steer to the left when bike up - then the reservoir should be parallel to the ground. Mine stops and is not horizontal at all. Can it be because I put some chrome between the tank and the frame so that the steer does not go so far as it should?

I simply filled the reservoir till at one end I could not fill more or it would drain out.

-when I opened the OEM bleedvalve, then I pulled all the time a lot of airbubbles, the manual says that if you suck air through the vlavethred, you should make it tight with teflontape. I didn't and pulled vacuum with the migti-vac tool + shut the bleedingvalve, this should be good I hope, because as there is vacuum on the system there is no possibility for air to enter, or am I wrong?


The last (left) reservoir will be done (clutch) when I have to take off my tank in a couple of days when HONDA finally delivers the OEM airboxcover with the "foam" in it, because I cannot get to the bleedingvalve as at the left side I had the OEM-claxon mounted. There is so less place that I even have to ask my wife to put the key in the hole in order to take off my seat......... and she does it 

[sandy]

The reservoirs can be made level by adjusting the mounting on the bar or moving the bars up or down. Not really necessary though. What you did is OK. The clutch bleed valve is by the key hole to remove the seat. It's accessible without removing the seat or tank. Also, if you've not changed fluid in 12 yrs, you might want to completely remove old fluid. Then refill with denatured alcohol and flush that through the system. Then bleed the new stuff. You're right about the small bubbles from the loose bleed valve. Not to worry.

[FLATSIX]

O.K., then I think the work is done good - I have refilled the oil till I saw at the bleeding valve the new fresh transparant oil coming out - so I am sure that all the yellow PIPI is gone.

What worries me a bit is that the migti-vac revolver got oil in it- when I pump the level there is oil coming out - I must have laid it on the ground when there was a lot of oil in it, and some oil must be gone in that plastic gun. Can that do harm ?

[roboto65]

I do not know but I have got brake fluid in mine and it still works fine !!!