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Originally Posted by PhiSig1071

You shouldn't *have* to bleed your brakes after that, but if you want to you can, it's pretty easy.

Open the top of your brake fluid reservoir, put a short section of hose routed into a catch can on the bleed nipple and get a wrench (should be 10mm). Open the bleed valve on the caliper, pump the brake lever til it gets soft, close the bleed valve, pump til it firms up again, and repeat as many times as necessary. The trick is to keep an eye on the fluid in the reservoir and keep it topped off with new fluid, and watch for clean fluid to come out of the caliper (though the hose into the catch can) and you're golden. Obviously you have to do one line at a time, I usually do the riders right side first, then switch to the left, then go back to the right and make sure no old fluid got back into the caliper. The toughest thing to do is to make sure you keep the reservoir topped off, because if you get an air bubble in the lines you're farked. Oh and use GOOD brake fluid, I like Motul or Bel-ray.

One point that someone here in Austin couldn't manage... take the diaphram out of the reservoir. Don't extend it and pour fluid into it thinking it is the reservoir. In case you ever wanted to know the definition of Dumbass when talking about brakes. He called me after getting every last drop of fluid out of his lines... just to ask for help because he couldn't figure out why no fluid was coming out. He even openned all the banjo bolts. Wheeeeeeeee