How difficult is fitting braided lines to the VTR? I got some with the bike and still haven't fitted them
thinking it will best be done sooner rather than later, else I'll forget, and the brakes will be bled before the track day anyway so I might as well kill two birds with one stone (I am assuming brakes will need to be bled, at least)..
More importantly though; will I, with my fingers of butter and mechanical skills of an inflatable sheep, be able to do it without causing the VTR to spontaneously combust in front of my eyes when I turn the engine on?
Slowly approaching the more bikes than birthdays achievement
lloydie wrote:Brakes are something you don't want to mess with if you don't know what your doing and your dad too .
Get it round mine and I will show you how .
Just make sure you buy a new bottle of dot4 and don't shake it .
It's the VTR. I can't ride it until the 11th November, track day is the 10th. I want them to be at least bled beforehand anyway because they did feel quite spongey in London
Slowly approaching the more bikes than birthdays achievement
When I asked what sort I meant what configuration of brake lines .
Race lines(common) use two - one for each caliper that are direct from a double banjo at the master . With this set up you will need
1x double banjo
2x single banjo
7x copper washers
2x brake lines .
NB. don't fully tighten up the banjos etc until you are absouletly sure you have everything in the correct position. if your lines run from the master cylinder and you need to reposition them, you don't want to have tightened down and squashed the copper washers and then find you need to release them again.
what is a real pain is getting the fluid to run down the lines to the calipers and not get too much air stuck in before you bleed the system.
how to do this:
attach the lines to the master cylinder on the handle bar and let them hang down. put a clear sandwich bag and a rubber band around the line at the bottom so fluid doesn't spray evrywhere later
attach the calipers to the forks. don't connect the banjo bolts. undo the bleed nipple. fill the calipers (carefully) through the threaded hole for the banjo bolt. this will fill the calipers up with fluid and the air comes out through the nipple. when full, do up the nipple.
now fill up the master cylinder reservoir and pump the levr until some fluid starts getting into the bag below.
connect the lines to the calipers.
bleed sytem -
if after assembling the whole lot you attach something to the bleed nipple and apply a negative pressure , ie suck on it it helps bleeding.
Virt wrote:How difficult is fitting braided lines to the VTR? I got some with the bike and still haven't fitted them
thinking it will best be done sooner rather than later, else I'll forget, and the brakes will be bled before the track day anyway so I might as well kill two birds with one stone (I am assuming brakes will need to be bled, at least)..
More importantly though; will I, with my fingers of butter and mechanical skills of an inflatable sheep, be able to do it without causing the VTR to spontaneously combust in front of my eyes when I turn the engine on?
clever use of the word sheep to draw lloydie in
3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the worlds population.
but he has already seen it !!
