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Dead Magura, Lever Seal Gone?


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Hey, my brakes slowly been coming further and further back to the bars until the master piston has come to the end of the barrel. i re bled it this morning (took tpa all the way out, put syringe in slave cylinder, took the syringe out last etc) but when i pull the lever it still just reaches the end of the barrel without hitting the hitting the rims, the pads are close enough. When i bled it the first time this morning, half way through doing it LOADS of air come out, i mean i've bled loads of hs33's before but i know that if there was that much air sitting in the hose the slave cylinders wouldn't move at all.

The only thing i can think of it being is a seal in the lever? but i dunno :S how do u take the slave cylinder out? can you just undo the bleed screw and push it out with a allen key? any help is apreciated, Thanks alot. Jake

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If you want the piston to come out the lever all you have to do is:

*Take the lever blade of the lever body

*Undo the bleed bolt on the lever body

*The Lever piston should pop out

Taking the piston out wont solve anything though...

Edited by Koxx_Nath.C
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Just sounds like you've still got air in the system...

Take it all apart, and give it all a good clean.

There's I Wiki article (I wrote) explaining how to clean up the Magura cylinder pistons, try doing all that too.

Once you're happy with it all being clean, give it all a good bleed, and try again?

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Something's wrong at the lever I'd say. I had this problem with two pre-05 levers which I'd stripped using nitro-mors (they were gash colours...). They worked fine for a long time after but then started to leak somewhere, needing a bleed every couple of rides and eventually f**king up all together.

Take out the piston if you want, but as mentioned there's not a lot you can do. Lithium greasing the seals did nothing to help me when I had the problem...

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couldn't be bothered to take it out in the end, i found a new lever to wack on, the reason i wanted to take it out so i could diagnose the problem to see if the seal is nakered in the lever to see if it is leaking. never the less it fixed it with a new lever.

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