vinyl hose, brake fluid?

loudhvx wrote:

By the way, stick with dot 3 or 4. It is designed to absorb water. That way the water is dissipated through the system. You don't want the water to collect in the low points and boil.

. . . or promote rust (such as inside the caliper in the area behind the piston). :pinch:

Routine flush every year or two avoids any problem, and when correctly performed is relatively quick and easy, and doesn't require bleeding because air isn't introduced into the system. Just pumps new fluid through the system which pushes out the old fluid (using the hand brake lever for front and foot brake pedal for rear). The bleeder screw is used to allow escape of exiting fluid. It's usually easy to notice when the new fluid appears. But the system isn't drained, then re-filled so as to require the dreaded bleeding off of air bubbles in the line, 'cause there's no air bubbles . . . absent a screw-up. :laugh:

Good Fortune!

And if you don't have them already, speedbleeders make this task a piece-of-cake. Just finished refreshing my brake fluid on the 750 and it took me all of 5 minutes for all three calipers. Well worth the $7 per caliper.

Understanding cashflow....you can at least put them on your wish list

9am53 - what did you end up doing for your brake hose? My friend just called with the same problem on his '80 LTD 1000. He wants to replace the hose since every other component has been replaced / rebuilt and he doesn't want to use any old comtaminated parts.
Thanks

9am53 wrote:

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I just counted 13 states that are further north than where I am at...no dog teams here!

Shipping to canada is always 3 or 4 times what you guys pay, so often times shipping is more than the cost of the item.

Also your "Customs" sucks. I have sent things to Australia, Russia, and the Middle east, and it was received quicker than when I send things to Canada.

loudhvx wrote:

By the way, stick with dot 3 or 4. It is designed to absorb water. That way the water is dissipated through the system. You don't want the water to collect in the low points and boil.

Personally, i haven’t had any issues with it.
i think the advantage is that dot 5 is not hydroscopic, therefore it will not absorb water in the first place. so there is no water to boil.
I had my bike in the barn for 22years, and when I rebuilt the brakes there was no rust behind the pistons, just some very minor pitting. I have always used dot 5.
Patton is right though. We should all change our fluid to prevent ANY moisture issues.

79MKII wrote:

9am53 - what did you end up doing for your brake hose? My friend just called with the same problem on his '80 LTD 1000. He wants to replace the hose since every other component has been replaced / rebuilt and he doesn't want to use any old comtaminated parts.
Thanks

Here is what I did:

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I am happy with the hose. It fit properly and is soft and flexible enough to accomodate a 180* bend perfectly.

otakar wrote:

9am53 wrote:

maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&tab=wl

I just counted 13 states that are further north than where I am at...no dog teams here!

Shipping to canada is always 3 or 4 times what you guys pay, so often times shipping is more than the cost of the item.

Also your "Customs" sucks. I have sent things to Australia, Russia, and the Middle east, and it was received quicker than when I send things to Canada.

This is true, I always wait a long time for anything from the states, also shipping to the states is ridiculously expensive from here. I was going to ship my old headers to somebody in the states and it was going t cost 80 dollars!

The product Motive Products uses for their pressure power bleeders is some nice hose from Saint Gobain. It's called Tygon, and they won't tell us what it's made of (trade secrete). It's resistant to almost everything, specifically brake fluid. Brake fluid is pretty corrosive, and Motive used the best hose they could find, hence their adapters cost around $30-$50. It's difficult to find any short lengths of this stuff below 50 feet, and it's what you ought to use, but you're free to use anything you want. I like doing things right the first time, and I don't want a hose that will get broken down over time only to have it burst or pop off the barbed fitting of a power bleeder one day.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tygon_tubing#cite_note-1
It's Tygon 2375 tubing.