06 636 winter rebuild

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Originally Posted by JohnnyP

The important thing about a res is the diaphragm in it, as the pads wear and the piston moves out it pulls the fluid down and creates vacuum in a sealed setup like yours. Eventually the hose will start to collapse and the brake will stop working completely. Basically I was wheeling wheeling away and all of a sudden no brake at all....Open the cap and bleed it again and it would work for some time, then eventually go dead again....


Since most racers don't use rear brake at all or very little, and bleed brakes often, its not a problem for them...We however use rear brake alot and that where the problem comes from

Sic innovations came out with a triple clamp that had a build in res with no diaphragm, I posted in their thread that it was going to cause problems. Everyone basically said I was an idiot and didnt know what I was talking about...Then shortly after they changed the design to one that had brembo res with diaphragm because I was 100% correct, eventually without a diaphragm you will have problems

I actually thought the cap was some sort of vented/check valve thing, not just a plain plug. I can definitely see what you're saying. I'm thinking about working some sort of reservoir mount into the heel guard right now... I'll have plenty of time to figure it out since I just sprained my wrist so bad snowboarding

Originally Posted by Stubbz63

bike looks great man, you could have gotten almost the same amount of leverage out of the brembo lever as the asv if you had them mounted like you do now which they should have been anyhow. not sure how you were usin that original setup with your hb so close to your grip like that lol.

Back when I had flipped clipons, it didn't seem like there was any space to do it this way... It just didn't seem to work with my hands. Maybe I just didn't have it setup right because I had never used a handbrake before. Then I dropped the bike and the lever broke that little disk in the master so I decided to chop it. When I tried putting the levers how they are now once I got dirt bars, the HB lever was like one finger width too short to work so I had to get a new one. This ASV is super nice though so I ain't complaining. Can't wait to heal up so I can try it out!