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Just a quickie if anyone has a link to a vid or Shimano manual as my googling skills don’t seem to be up to this.
I bled my SLX front brake earlier, but during the procedure it must have popped a seal in the caliper as even with the bleed nipple closed it pulled back to the bar and pissed oil out from one of the pistons. I couldn’t be bothered with trying to rebuild a caliper and CRC had the M6000 caliper half price at £18.
Can anyone give any useful links, pointers or tips on swapping this over, please? I’ve swapped levers on a brake before, but never installed a caliper onto a hose or filled a brake from scratch. Do I need anything else like an olive and barb as I would need for the lever end? Any specialist tools? I already have a bleed kit from Epic Bleed Solutions and have used it successfully many times.
All help gratefully accepted.
You'll need a new olive and barb. You won't be able to use the banjo bolt fitting from the hose at the caliper end which are standard on SLX. Hopefully your new caliper came with the bolt to secure the hose, if not you'll have to buy one of those. Installing the hose at the caliper end is the same process as at the lever end. Unsure what the process is when installing a new caliper but I'd guess you'd just follow the usual bleed process. No special tools needed, though a vice can be helpful for tapping the barb into the hose.
Hose has a bolt holding it to the caliper. Remove that from the old one, fit to the new one. The new caliper will have no oil in it, so do a full bleed until there’s no air. That’s about it really.
Installing the hose at the caliper end is the same process as at the lever end
Oh, I see - the M6000 doesn’t have a banjo - so yes, what he said... fit the olive, barb and hose bolt like you would lever end and screw it in. Then a full bleed.
If it’s just a new caliper, as long as it is the same banjo fitting then it should be as simple as unscrewing bolt from old caliper (will also have a wee rubber washer) and just just re fix, with rubber washer, to new caliper then bleed. It was last time I did it anyway iirc, don’t remember any olive or bard at the caliper end on my xt’s.
edit...just saw dezb say the m6000 use a barb/olive not a banjo so ignore me.
Thanks folks, now I have ordered some barbs and olives too, hopefully avoiding any last minute ‘oh bollocks’ moments.....
Just a thread update to say ‘thanks’ for the help.
I got all the right bits and swapping the caliper was actually pretty easy. The brake works perfectly.
Cheers.
Thread resurrection!
the new M6000 calipers don't have bleed nipples, only a grub screw.
anyone know if it's just a case of getting a bleed nipple to bleed and business as usual, or, probably better, if there's an adapter i can ping on the end of my bleed syringe and screw into the caliper?
ta in advance.
You can see where to connect a piece of tube on p24
There is a little rubber cap (different caliper/location but same idea)
Near the bleed screw
You may well need to remove the caliper and position it so the bleed boss is the highest point on the caliper to get all the air out the caliper
hmm, the bottom pic is the caliper I have, the top pic is for the MT500.
what looks like a port to plug a hose in the bottom pic is actually a grub screw, no cap or bleed port.
I'll see if something from my many epic bleed kit bits fits it.
Its just to the right of the E in the M6000 picture pointing down.
You can see it in these pictures
