Rich9804

At last i have rebuilt it. I eventually got it out by soaking it in hot soapy water for 20 minutes, it still hadn't moved so i poured almost boiling water down the hole. bang i got a master cylinder and some boiling water on my face, but i was happy it was out. I sujest using safty goggles or being very careful if anyone else tries this! once it was out i tried to put it back in but it was very stiff, I refured to some verniers and the inside diameter was 13.99mm and the external diameter was 14.02mm basically it would not push in. I lubed it up with some vasaline and pushed it home with a pillar drill but it only had travel in the bottom of its bore. After some more soakes (now with the lever in place to avoid expolsions) with boiling water and warm rinces it popped back out, now it works. I never realised how many little bits there were in my lever until just. I've loctited the lever bolt in place so it doesn't have to be done up so tight as to clamp the lever It's not perfect, so i'm not going to re-fit it now, I'll leave it until tomorrow evening or later to make sure it's not going to re-seize, then I have to re-bleed the system again. Trauma over, thanks people for your help and I hope this can be a reference for the rest of you. I couldn't find any other information online.

If you didn't live 150 miles away i would kick you. Nah i realised that about 5 minutes after starting the bleed job. I thought there might have been air in there. On bleeding it became aparent that there wasn't, just the usual black rubishy stuff that does not look drinkable and stinks.

Lol, sorry mate, that wasn't me. I've never ridden in brum in my life, only driven past it a few times on the way to blackpool, it's always raining there! Your name rings a bell, but only off of here... Were you the chap selling carbon fibre brake braces? "Carbonique"? Seems to have gone a bit off topic here, lol. Good luck with the bleeding mate

I've just thrown it into some very hot water, I hope it works

Lol, I have been a member on here since the dawn of time! Just not ridden trials for a couple of years. I used to be a very frequent user, now i'm a lazy student bum. But you should bow down to my seniority. Lol

I should have thought something like this, but maybe turn the bike upside down also may help to keep air moving in the direction of the fluid Obviously at the end you'll have to turn the bike back up for the last bit at the slaves to be air free HTH

Hmm, thanks for all of your sugestions. it seems to have seized or something, I've just tried about 6bar of pressure on it and it won't budge. given it some welly on the pliers, and tried poking through the little holes with a twist drill and pushing very hard, but still it hasn't moved.

[attachmentid=3454] Cheers mate, it is the lever yes... I did attach a picture, don't know what happened to that though. Because the thing is stuck at the bottom with the spring compressed i can't grab it with pliers, not even long-nose ones can grip it.

Evening all, I have a problem with my front HS33 lever caboodle. I've not ridden my trials bike for about 2 years :$ but whenever I walk past it in my garage i always squeeze the levers just to feel how sexily smooth they were (bled with WD40 about 18 months ago and set up perfectly) Today however I gave it a squeeze and the pads stayed against the rim and the lever went slack... Slowly the pads came out and the lever worked again...The same thing happened a few times. Eventually they stopped working all together. I decided i should probably bleed them again or something, so bled them through, but realized that the lever was jammed in. Having taken the whole lever apart (as much as i can) I've come to the point photographed. I can see that the piston has jammed(?) at the bottom but cannot get it to budge. I've tried poking things in from the hydraulic side of the piston but to no avail... What i'm after really is an internals schematic and some idea how i fix the bugger. I've tried pulling the piston back with some long nose pliers but to no avail. Please help me -Rich

Sounds broken to me mate (Y) Try another network card, see if that fixes the problem, if it does it was defineatrly the card :) -Rich

to be honest mate I don't know much about them either :shifty:" Your best bet would be to find a decent forum for minis, there will be loads no doubt as it's a clasic! -Rich P.S. - I wish I'd found the forum for my polo before i'd bought it...Gives you things to look out for on the specific cars etc.

Wooot, Minis are possibly the best little cars for corners! They don't have suspension springs like all other cars, but they actually use little rubber blocks (N) Basically you can go about twice as fast arround corners than in other small cars, obviously the tyres can be a little restrictive when it comes to high speeds on corners but you get what you pay for with them.... :shifty: As for motorways, a 1.3 mini will defineately keep up! as long as it's serviced and looked after it should last for many many miles. Such retro cars ;) -Rich