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Need to bleed these, can't work it out.
So a theres a bleed nipple on the caliber but the lever has nothing ???
It just has a cap which reveals the reservoir and a rubber diaphragm
The Shimano instructions are no use
How the hell do you beed these??
or do you just drain them and pump new fluid in from the calliper upwards until the reservoir over flows?
You need a Shimano bleed kit. Syringe on the caliper, funnel on the lever and push the fluid through. It's actually remarkably easy.
You need a Shimano bleed kit. Syringe on the caliper, funnel on the lever and push the fluid through. It's actually remarkably easy.
Are you sure? the funnel kits seem to be for later brakes with a bleed port on the calliper, this brake lever has nowhere to attach the Shimano bleed pot thing
665 doesn't use the funnel - it uses the g-clamp assembly ideally. You can do it without, but the proper kit helps.
The kit below works on old style and new style brakes. Old use the g-clamp and bottle, new use the funnel.
The levers are like this
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If you remove that cap its direct to the reservoir
Okay, but still don't get it, or what the Clamp does?
It clamps over the open reservoir with a tube feeding off the reservoir into the bottle.
Allows a bleed up from calliper into bottle, and a gravity bleed back down again to clear the calliper of air.
T, you can do it without the kit.
Set the lever level, remove reservoir cover.
Then fit a tube to the caliper nipple set to drain down into a pot. Open the caliper nipple and keep the reservoir topped up, don't let it empty! Until the fluid drips without bubbles from the nipple. Shut nipple. I've done it like this successfully in France with no kit to hand, not even a tube.
My preferred method though is reverse bleeding using a syringe and tube from the caliper end (drained system first)
I had a conversation with someone.. In the industry basically the cheap Shimano brakes will be very tricky to bleed 100%. They'll either not work, keep grey crap running through or leak at the reservoir end etc not making a seal. At £45 a end I can't think of anything better value than just a new full end that'll last you two years. Bleed XTR, don't bother with lesser SLX IMO
Not all of us share your disposable attitude to bikes 🙂
I had a conversation with someone.. In the industry
The trouble with the bike industry is it's so full of shit.
Done! Cheers Stoner & Sillyold
Was dead easy in the end, different to other brakes I've done but easy 🙂
I thought Mark was talking Sex Industry?
And, JESUS TONIGHT!!!!! How friggin' much?
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