Help Neede Urgently Please!

[powerz]

Right for the last 2 hours i have been trying to bleed my rear 04 maggie using this guide

Bleeding Maguras in a bucket or a bath.

1. Fill the bucket or the bath full of water.

2. Take the brake off of your bike and put it in the bucket/bath.

3. Undo both bleed bolts, the one on the lever and the one on the slave. (Underwater)

4. Pump the brake and you should see some air coming out of the slave.

5. Do this until no more air comes out.

6. Do up both of the bleed bolts. (Again, underwater)

7. Take the brake out and it should be air free.

But when i pull the lever the plunger in the lever gets stuck and doesnt spring back meaning the lever just flops about.

i have tried,

before i pull the lever cover the bleed hole on the caliper

then remove my finger from the bleed hole and let go of lever but it still gets stuck.

Any help would be very grately apreciated, im ment to be riding tomorow, and i know there are many of these topics but im in desperate need of help. THANKS

and my hands are all rinkly now and freezing.

oops i have posted in wrong place can this be moved to members chat, thanks.

Edited February 9, 2007 by powerz

[Ryan Blackwell]

Try leaving one bleed bolt on and putting the other underwater then pump the leaver then screw back on underwater then do the other bleed bolt the same way. (dont no if you understand )

Thats the way i do it and it works great.

Cheers.

[powerz]

cheers, id give it ago if the lever plunger didn't get stuck after one pull. . Thanks anyway i guese i will have to wait until my syringe turns up.

[flas12345]

hi mate.

this is how i bleed my brakes and they are mint. all you need is a seringe and a crossover pipe with a barb in one end.

1. fill sink with water
2. put all my brake under the water
3. un-do the the little 3mm allen key bolt in the lever(making sure the brake is still under the water)
4. un-do the 5mm allen key on the piston(again making sure the brake is under the water)
5. fill seringe with water
6. put crossover pipe onto seringe
7. screw bard in to the 2mm hole in the lever
8. insert the water into the brake whilst pumping the lever (do this 2-3 times to make sure)
9. unscrew barb out of 2mm hle in the lever
10. screw 2mm and 5mm bolts back in
11. AND YOU ARE DONE

make sure when you are doing all this, that the brake is under the water.

hope i have helped you mate.

[adam trials]

cheers, id give it ago if the lever plunger didn't get stuck after one pull. . Thanks anyway i guese i will have to wait until my syringe turns up.

Why wait if you have an old washing up iquid bottle use that. Put a bigger hole in the top and put part of an old hose or cable in it.

Make sure the bottle is clean.

Adam.

[powerz]

cheers for your help i have bled it now, i took the lever apart and cleaned it all & put some wd40 round the plunger and it stoped getting stuck, so i have bled it but i still have the problem i had before i bled it, which is on oneside the pad slowly goes of the rim and not quickly, it's very slow at returning.

[brisa man]

cheers for your help i have bled it now, i took the lever apart and cleaned it all & put some wd40 round the plunger and it stoped getting stuck, so i have bled it but i still have the problem i had before i bled it, which is on oneside the pad slowly goes of the rim and not quickly, it's very slow at returning.

if one of the slaves is returning slow take it off make sure you take your pads off and do it away from your rim and hold the slave that is not going slow and pull the lever then the slow one should come out and then just spray a load of wd40 or something on it until it frees itself off a bit. the same thing happened to mine, i just bought a new slave in the end now it works pimp. hope this helps. cheers.