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My Monster is sitting at home with the whole front end removed while the forks are getting revalved. As I looked at the calipers hanging there, I noticed that the pistons in the calipers could be squeezed back about 1/4 inch before they would be fully retracted.
If I were to switch to steel braded brake lines or something, where I would have to get air back out of the lines, would it work to get most of the air out, then pry the caliper piston back to push the bubbles back out into the brake fluid reservoir rather than trying to pump them down the lines and out the brake caliper bleeder?
Would this also make it quicker when I want to replace the brake fluid, to get as much out of the caliper area as possible first, then suck out whatever I can from the reservoir before adding new fluid and pumping it down and out the caliper bleeder?
What problems am I creating by doing something like this?
[I'm not going to be doing any brake or clutch line bleeding right away, since I just had it done a couple of months ago at the last service.]
If I were to switch to steel braded brake lines or something, where I would have to get air back out of the lines, would it work to get most of the air out, then pry the caliper piston back to push the bubbles back out into the brake fluid reservoir rather than trying to pump them down the lines and out the brake caliper bleeder?
Would this also make it quicker when I want to replace the brake fluid, to get as much out of the caliper area as possible first, then suck out whatever I can from the reservoir before adding new fluid and pumping it down and out the caliper bleeder?
What problems am I creating by doing something like this?
[I'm not going to be doing any brake or clutch line bleeding right away, since I just had it done a couple of months ago at the last service.]