brakes god brakes lol

[cybergost1]

well i have still have and love my xs11 but i havent rode it for 3months(ya ya beat me with a stick). I went out and boom started with no problems(sweeeeettt)lol. backed out of the garage, and i took off man it felt great. UNNNNtil i tride to stop(lol dumb@$$ never made sure the brakes worked. (just assumed). Nothing nada. so luckly i wasnt going fast and downsifted it to get around the block.

NOW then problem back brakes are sponngy and the front are just gone. I took off the mc cover no fuild? and no signs on the floor of fuild on the ground. Well i have seen stranger. I filled up and got the sponngy again then went to bed. worked on it the next day the fuild is gone AGAIN. still no sign on fuild on the floor. The lines where new as of 3months ago. any ideas where it went?

sec question i see there is a new front mc out there. How about a rear one yet?

Again thanks for all the help

[Bubba1954]

Sounds like when the lines were replaced a few months ago, not all of the air was purged from your system and the fluid that you have added since has simply worked it's way into the lines and cylinders, this has caused the air to drift upward to the resevour.

Keep adding fluid and bleed your system.

[xj11yamaha]

Real easy trick / tip

heres a tip i picked up from a friend of mine, Pull the brake lever in all the way with the cover off, and zip tie it full depressed you can set the cover over the resevoir just dont seal it down, this will help let a good amount of the air to reach the top of the resevoir and release it self. Just a tip i thought i'd throw in! Thanks Happy Braking

[cybergost1]

well i have been gone for a while doing this and that.

i have started to work on my bike again. namely the brakes i had 2 sets of hands helping me and the back brakes are fine now and i got all the air out for once. they work like champs now. the front i was having problems with are still messed up and i found out why today. after filling the maste cyclinder up for the 5th time i started to bleed the line on them i got one side done then i started on the other. Then i saw it my dad was putting so much preasure on in the brake lever it made it drip,drip, drip. i putll off the caliper and saw that it had been leaking down around the seal slow enough that it was dry before it had hit the ground. i pulled the cyclinder out and saw the echings in it which i knew about but thought it was above the seal. the seal had been eatten away.

now i am ordering the parts to get all the brakes fixed and new seals.

thanks for everyones help.