Rear brake caliper will an R1 caliper fit my gen 1??????

[AyJay]

[quote author=AyJay link=topic=14793.msg167771#msg167771 date=1411505575]
The calipers on Fazers are buggers to bleed. Don't give up yet. My top tip - take the caliper off and push the pistons all the way back in and try again.

when I rebuilt my rear calliper with new pistons and new hoses recently and I had no issues at all with the bleeding. I did use a vacuum bleeder to pull the fluid through and then used a one man bleeder to finish off, the vacuum bleeder saved me a lot of time and effort bleeding new hoses.
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That's cheating Solo!


I just rebuilt the front calipers and I was about an hour in and when I took the reservoir cover off to add more fluid as my wrists were killing me, I was leaning on the tank with my face close to the reservoir and I happened to notice the odd little bubble appearing in it. Just a little squeeze of the lever and more bubbles, so I kept going just gentle squeezing the lever a couple of centimetres and the damn thing bled from the top. Only took 10 mins to get them all out and get decent lever pressure, and then a couple of more minutes with the bleed nipples on the calipers. Very weird.


I'm definitely getting a vacuum bleeder next time.