I’ve got a fluid leak from the Banjos on both my magura MT5 calipers. Levers are XT and hoses, calipers and O-rings are all Magura.

I’ve swapped calipers front to rear and cleaned everything spotlessly, new o-rings with a tiny dab of silicone grease. The worst leak has stayed with the hose, so I’m suspecting the hose\banjo. Nothing obviously scored or marked.

<span style=”font-size: 0.8rem;”>I’m reluctant to replace the hoses with the same as they’ve always done it, just taken me ages to track down the source of the squealy brakes.</span>

WWSTWD?

Came here for the torn frenulum content, am disappoint

WWSTWD?

Get some shimano calipers and hoses.

No bleeding, but we do have reigning.

I’ve had this happen to Magura hoses. They were leaking where the hose enters the banjo and I couldn’t see any way of tightening that side of the fitting on mine so I sacked off the shigura idea and sold the Magura calipers and fitted shimano throughout.  18 months and around 1500 harsh miles later still no issues.

Fwiw I use cheapo M4100 levers to avoid the wandering bite point issues associated with servo wave levers, which was the reason I tried maguras in the first place, and then the levers leaked so I went to M4100, then the hoses leaked so that was the end of my Magura love affair! Those M4100 levers have about 2000 miles on them now, pretty good for a £14 lever!

Has anyone replaced just the Banjo’s? Don’t really want to spend £30 an end on new hoses if I can help it.

https://www.uberbikecomponents.com/category/436/Hydraulic-Replacement-Fittings

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/385295198459

Or the even cheaper eBay version? Ideally I’d use the hope style with a copper washer each side, anyone know of a source?

You can’t just replace the Banjo fitting as it’s crimped on by a specialist machine that you/I don’t have access to and can’t replicate at home. You will need the entire hose.

I’ve never used anything other than Magura stuff – I can’t help with the parts you’ve linked.

FWIW I’ve got two pairs of Magura MT5 and never had a leak or any other issue – so stick with them. They’re good brakes but you’ve clearly got a problem.

I used to make hydraulic and high pressure air hoses offshore, and used a mixture of swaged (as you say the original Magura banjo is swaged) and compression fittings.

The lever end is compression (and using a mix of magura and Shimano) so I don’t see why a compression banjo fitting wouldn’t work? All the aftermarket kits come with compression fittings at the caliper end.

I agree – it could/should work. I have used compression fit Banjo fittings on cars as well. So it may work but I’ve never done it with a bike brake :o)

So the eBay special banjos appear to have worked and barring a borderline too short front hose were pretty easy to use.

And for anyone else doing a Shigura set-up I’ve just replaced the too short hose with a Shimano XTR one with a banjo that also appears to be fine with magura caliper and bolt.

^ that is interesting to know, thanks.