11-01-16, 02:51 PM
Just avoid this shit: http://www.halfords.com/motoring/motorcy...ke-bleeder
Picked one up, after the near identical old one I had was no longer working and not preventing flow backwards. Like a fool I handed over ten quids for this and it didn't work either. Fluid/air just flowed back everytime I let out the brake lever. Rubbish. Ended up just throwing the shitty valve, using the pipe off it into a bottle of fluid and going old school as mentioned above. So, it was effectively a very expensive bit of plastic tubing...
Picked one up, after the near identical old one I had was no longer working and not preventing flow backwards. Like a fool I handed over ten quids for this and it didn't work either. Fluid/air just flowed back everytime I let out the brake lever. Rubbish. Ended up just throwing the shitty valve, using the pipe off it into a bottle of fluid and going old school as mentioned above. So, it was effectively a very expensive bit of plastic tubing...