Blake Posted August 15, 2013 Report Share Posted August 15, 2013 Thank you, i have a jammed up 04 I wanna use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canardweb Posted August 15, 2013 Report Share Posted August 15, 2013 Thank you, i have a jammed up 04 I wanna use. To be fair it just makes a loud pop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam T Posted August 15, 2013 Report Share Posted August 15, 2013 Haha when i got the swollen pistons out of my 05 bodies, i connected it to our airline at work, which runs at 260psi. It went bloody bang Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bing Posted August 15, 2013 Report Share Posted August 15, 2013 Track pump for me, got it to 100 psi before it came out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blake Posted August 16, 2013 Report Share Posted August 16, 2013 Freezer or oven for a locked up 04? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross McArthur Posted August 16, 2013 Report Share Posted August 16, 2013 When you're saying attached a bleed hose to a track pump. How do they connect? My bleed hose has a screwed end for the lever and an open end which I push a syringe onto... Can someone post a picture or video please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blake Posted August 16, 2013 Report Share Posted August 16, 2013 When you're saying attached a bleed hose to a track pump. How do they connect? My bleed hose has a screwed end for the lever and an open end which I push a syringe onto... Can someone post a picture or video please? Push it into one of your holes you like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben_travis Posted August 16, 2013 Report Share Posted August 16, 2013 When you're saying attached a bleed hose to a track pump. How do they connect? My bleed hose has a screwed end for the lever and an open end which I push a syringe onto... Can someone post a picture or video please? what a noob...put the hose into the schrader valve hole, turn the lever to hold it in place like a valve and pump like a boss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross McArthur Posted August 16, 2013 Report Share Posted August 16, 2013 Sake! Is that it? How the hell does whatever hundred PSI get through the hose just by doing that? Will have to give it a try! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamR28 Posted August 16, 2013 Report Share Posted August 16, 2013 PSI is Pounds per Square Inch, it's a measurement of pressure rather than flow rate or movement of a volume of air So you could get a million PSI through a tube 1mm in diameter (in fact smaller diameters are better at holding larger pressures). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross McArthur Posted August 16, 2013 Report Share Posted August 16, 2013 Yea, I meant without it popping out. Smooth hose on a smooth track pump grip. If it works it works I just didnt know thats how you went about doing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blake Posted August 16, 2013 Report Share Posted August 16, 2013 Another possible method is using one of those fully threaded valves like shwalbe ones and puttingg it in the hose thread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Topsy Posted August 16, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2013 (edited) Got mine out with 116 psi. Was great fun haha. Now, would anyone be interested in some aluminium pistons? I'd have thought they should not swell and get stuck? I might be able to do some Only thing that looks like it could be tricky is that orange seal/ring.. Wouldn't know how I could get hold of anything like that, the O ring shouldn't be a problem though. Edited August 16, 2013 by Hopping_Topsy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dann2707 Posted August 16, 2013 Report Share Posted August 16, 2013 The orange ring is only to stop dirt getting in so it's not a major part in sealing the brake! I'd be up for trying one maybe! Aluminium would be cool but more likely to score the cylinder? Worth a shot though definitely 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Topsy Posted August 16, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2013 ah, cool Will also think about the scoring. There's surely a solution to that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valk Posted August 16, 2013 Report Share Posted August 16, 2013 I made an aluminum piston once to replace the plastic one on my 2011's and it did nothing but making the problem even worse because it scratched the inside of the cylinder so it was leaking everywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bing Posted August 16, 2013 Report Share Posted August 16, 2013 It will do, because a metal piston will wear away a plastic bore. As if it would ever work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blake Posted August 16, 2013 Report Share Posted August 16, 2013 Metal pistons can work but you must have 2 o rings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Topsy Posted August 16, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2013 Would need two anyways because I don't think I can manage to make any of those orange dirt guards myself. Will try and come up with something that works over the next week(s). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dann2707 Posted August 16, 2013 Report Share Posted August 16, 2013 It will do, because a metal piston will wear away a plastic bore. As if it would ever work The inside of a lever body is metal! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FamilyBiker Posted August 16, 2013 Report Share Posted August 16, 2013 it was in 2010.... WAS,unfortunately! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bing Posted August 16, 2013 Report Share Posted August 16, 2013 Not on a 2011/12 maggie, they are a 1 piece moulding from that plastic shite. 05's are metal, and if you were to make a piston, brass would be the best material to do it from Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dann2707 Posted August 16, 2013 Report Share Posted August 16, 2013 Shit even the bore is plastic?! Thats mad!!! My apologies Dan! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bing Posted August 17, 2013 Report Share Posted August 17, 2013 Yes mate. And the 05 levers feel a damn sight stiffer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Topsy Posted September 2, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 2, 2013 All being well I should have a 3d model done by the end of the week, just hope I can find someone to machine it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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