Skip2 MyLou Posted February 10, 2008 Report Share Posted February 10, 2008 Hey guys, I'm a new banshee owner, having had my banshee for about 5 months. Recently I bent the upper right A-Arm, after a donut-gone-wrong incident, which I bought a new one and replaced it. However, in order to replace it, I had to disconnect the brake line. As most of you might have guessed, it was quite the mess of brake fluid. I replaced the lost brake fluid in the reservoir, however my front brakes still dont work. This leads me to believe that now I have air in my brakes. Being an amateur mechanic, I'm not sure how to fix this. I would really appreciate any suggestions. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skylor Posted February 10, 2008 Report Share Posted February 10, 2008 Theres two little brass bolts with holes in the middle and rubber covers over them on each caliper.just make sure your resivor is full and pump the brake lever and hold it while you open one bolt up and let the pressure out (keep the lever held in the whole time) and then tighten it back up and do the other caliper the same way after you pump the lever some more and keep rotating side and make sure the resivor is ful at all time eventually you will build up pressure which you will feel then you can put the rubber covers back on and you'll have front brakes lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spurdy Posted February 10, 2008 Report Share Posted February 10, 2008 Hey guys, I'm a new banshee owner, having had my banshee for about 5 months. Recently I bent the upper right A-Arm, after a donut-gone-wrong incident, which I bought a new one and replaced it. However, in order to replace it, I had to disconnect the brake line. As most of you might have guessed, it was quite the mess of brake fluid. I replaced the lost brake fluid in the reservoir, however my front brakes still dont work. This leads me to believe that now I have air in my brakes. Being an amateur mechanic, I'm not sure how to fix this. I would really appreciate any suggestions. Thank you. I've not had much experience with the brake systems on quads but have done several autos and I would think it is much the same. Remove the cover from the ressy on the handle bars, crack the bleeder on the caliper you have been messing with (maybe both if you think air got in the line on the other one as well). Make sure the ressy stays full while you "pump the brakes" until no air comes out of the bleeder. Refill the ressy to full and replace the cap. In my experience this is how you bleed the brakes on a vehicle. There has been talk about an inexpensive vacuum system (mityvac) from your local parts store and a procedure of connecting a hose from the bleeder to a bowl of brake fluid. I have never used either of these methods but if the first method doesn't work (which is obviously the least expensive and simplest), by all means try, try, try again! Best o luck, chief. SP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosBanshee44 Posted February 10, 2008 Report Share Posted February 10, 2008 Why did you disconnect the lines you probably could have replaced it without doin all that if i can't remember correctly but the only time i've had a stock bike i took everything apart once and that was it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohiobanshee Posted February 10, 2008 Report Share Posted February 10, 2008 Check out this thread http://www.bansheehq.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=89363 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MILO Posted February 11, 2008 Report Share Posted February 11, 2008 i don't think that you need any fancy equipment to bleed brake lines. if done right, they should be fine. 1. make sure your res cap is off and the res is full 2. loosen the bleeder on the caliper 3. slowly compress the lever completely, if you go to fast it will splash out of the rez. 4. hold the lever in and tighten the bleeder 5. slowly return the lever to it's normal position 6. check fluid level and refill if necessary 7. repeat, repeat, repeat... until you no longer see the bubbles or air in the fluid coming out of the bleeder 8. replace the res cap and you should notice significant pressure, if not, repeat...... i've never done the ft brakes but isn't one to be done b4 the other, like the pattern in an auto system? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skip2 MyLou Posted February 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2008 Why did you disconnect the lines you probably could have replaced it without doin all that if i can't remember correctly but the only time i've had a stock bike i took everything apart once and that was it. The brake line ran through the upper a-arm, not around it. So to get the old a-arm off, i had to disconnect the brake line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xsinnerx Posted February 11, 2008 Report Share Posted February 11, 2008 if I remember right, you can leave the break line attached to the caliper and slide the whole caliper and break line through the a-arm, I'm sure of it now that I think about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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