So my front brakes were feeling a bit squishy and I decided to bleed them. My first problem was blowing through a whole bottle of fluid on a single bleed valve. Air bubbles just kept coming. Part of me wanted to think it was a bad seal between the tube I was using but I'm pretty sure that's not the case.
Eventually it seemed to want to calm down and I moved on, but this story repeated itself on multiple bleed points. Another big symptom I noticed was I would have steady flow from the reservoir all the way down to my open bleed valve, without me working the lever. Given enough time the reservoir would simply run dry from gravity. I'm no expert but I thought the reservoir only drew fluid in when there was pressure coming from the system to draw it in...
Any ideas? Currently I have a zip tie holding my brake lever back for a while, read random threads about air bubbles in the master cylinder sometimes being a problem...
Eventually it seemed to want to calm down and I moved on, but this story repeated itself on multiple bleed points. Another big symptom I noticed was I would have steady flow from the reservoir all the way down to my open bleed valve, without me working the lever. Given enough time the reservoir would simply run dry from gravity. I'm no expert but I thought the reservoir only drew fluid in when there was pressure coming from the system to draw it in...
Any ideas? Currently I have a zip tie holding my brake lever back for a while, read random threads about air bubbles in the master cylinder sometimes being a problem...
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