The time has come, I need to bleed my rear brake. One simple question. Can I leave the caliper on the bike and bleed it?? I read somewhere that I need to take it off and hold it higher than the master cylinder. Thanks guys.

Matt

 

You can leave the calipers on when bleeding your brakes. I haven't heard about needing to hold it higher than the MC.

Have a rag handy in case brake fluid gets on anything.

I like to use a Mityvac vacuum bleeder. Are you doing the fronts too?

How's the rain???

 

you need to raise it ONLY IF your not getting good presure after a normal bleed

 

Sweet, sounds good guys, thanks.
Oh and the rain hasn't been bad lately. Living over in Sequim, we have a rainshadow so essentially the mountains catch all the rain before it gets here so its never really too bad. It's been nice the past few days, sprinkled a little today but not bad.

 

get a mity vac or something similar... I've bled my lines so many times now and it's so easy to do... I think I need to do my clutch cause somehow the fluid got dirty (leak in my mc seal maybe...)

 

Suck. I totally will next time I'm in an autoparts store and need to justify buying a tool.

 

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Matt</TD></TR></TABLE>

Do people actually use rear brakes..

 

I do... my pads are almost gone back there...

 

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When I have to stop my wheelie quick.