brake cylinders

[Pandanom]

Yes, you can flush them that way. You can make a pressure bleeder out of a one gallon garden sprayer. Toss the wand and engineer some fittings to attach to the hose. To bleed the entire system you will need a spare reservoir cap to drill for a hose fitting.

Jim

[Go Fleiter]

Please, is it possible to "rinse" brake cylinders by opening the bleeding holes and pressing brake fluid directly into the brake line port, after the brake lines have been removed?

They have put Dot 5.1 instead of Dot 5 in my system. They are not compatible (Alcolic vs. Silicone) and rubber parts can suffer malfunktion. I must be sure not to have gotten it as far as into the wheel cylinders. If so, I will have to change all the rubber components of the Wheel Cylinders, if not, I can leave them unmolested.
Master Cylinder rubber parts must be changed anyhow, brake lines must be flushed.

So I need to check if traces of DOT 5.1 (clear) comes out of the bleed port when pressing DOT 5 (purple) into the brake line port.

They relied on the Harley brake fluid, but Harley seems to have changed here from DOT 5 to To DOT 5.1 in 2007....

thanks! Go