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Title: broken bleed nipple?
Post by: Ton13 on 01 July 2012, 04:34:47 pm

Hey, dreaded thing happened and bleed nipple snapped while trying to bleed the rear brake... still air in there so only have 20% braking on rear...
anyways so my main problem is the numpty who had this bike before has put aluminium EVERYTHING and you only have to look at the bolts and they snap... Need the sizes of the bleed nipples and any of the casing bolts?
 
more so the bleed nipples as i need these replaced ASAP!
 
Cheers Guys
 

Title: Re: broken bleed nipple?
Post by: Fazerider on 01 July 2012, 11:09:37 pm

Sorry to hear that Tonie.
You can pick up a stainless steel engine bolt kit for about £12 on eBay, bleed nipples are a few quid each.
Assuming said numty hasn't done a similar trick with the banjo and brake mounting bolts you should be able to bleed the back brake by taking it off and angling it to get the bubbles to the inlet, then squeezing the pistons in to push the air up to the banjo at the top of the master cylinder where you can let it out... fiddly job, but it does work.

Title: Re: broken bleed nipple?
Post by: Pat on 02 July 2012, 12:27:03 am

If the bleed nipple's sheared off then it'll be a lot less hassle to leave it as it is & just replace the banjo bolt with one that has a bleed nipple built into it. 

eg. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-BANJO-BOLT-with-BLEED-NIPPLE-Screw-10-x-1-25mm-Honda-Kawasaki-Yamaha-/370626389489?pt=UK_Motorcycle_Parts&hash=item564b0de5f1 (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-BANJO-BOLT-with-BLEED-NIPPLE-Screw-10-x-1-25mm-Honda-Kawasaki-Yamaha-/370626389489?pt=UK_Motorcycle_Parts&hash=item564b0de5f1)

Or it's a tenner more for a stainless one.

Title: Re: broken bleed nipple?
Post by: Ton13 on 02 July 2012, 06:29:10 pm

is the regular bleed nipple 10 x 1.25 in size?