braided lines installed

[OZZY]

well if you havent seen the group buy and are in need of braided lines make sure u jump on the group buy being offered by cyclebrakes right now!!!  the price is too good to pass up.  anyways, ive been working on cleaning up the look of the bike and decided that i wanted to paint my calipers and install braided lines.  well i got the lines, clear coat with black fittings and in my opnion i think this combo works out very well for what i am trying to accomplish.  here are a few photos......

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install was a piece of cake, but getting the front lines bled was a beotch!!!  i went with front,rear, and clutch lines.  the new feel of the brakes is incredible.  great response and a good firm pull.  anyone that doesnt have braided lines needs them!!!  the braided lines with ebc HH pads is a killer combo!!!


now once Doyle and i swap his silver forks for my gold forks i will have the full look that i want. im pretty excited about getting it all done!!!

 

[GIXERHP]

The fronts aren't bad too do,, you just have to know the cheating ways!

First, put the bike on a rear stand
Second, loosen the banjo bolts on the calipers them selves
Third,fill the master cylinder, without the cap on
Forth, stand back and wait about five minutes, or until brake fluid starts to drip from the banjo bolts, as soon as it does,,, tighten the bolts
Fifth,refill the master cylinder, and start pumping the lever, then hold lever to the handle bar
Sixth, open the bleeder screw furthest away fron the master cylinder, while holding the lever to the bar, then close the bleeder screw
Repeat step six till no more air bubbles come out of the bleeder screw! Dont forget to keep refilling the master though!

 

[OZZY]

after several failing attempts at the traditional way, i did end up loosening the banjos until i got a bit of fluid. also gravity bled for about 20 mins. all is well now though!!!

 

[GIXERHP]

(OZZY @ Oct. 04 2007,21:42) after several failing attempts at the traditional way, i did end up loosening the banjos until i got a bit of fluid.  also gravity bled for about 20 mins.  all is well now though!!!

 

[Spudley]

So what's the poop on the cost

........I wouldn't mind doing the Full Monty (clutch also) on the SpudleyBusa.......someone PM me or something....

I looked at the cyclebrakes page and found no prices......

Heck I just got done doing the two year service with synthetic brake fluid (Dot 4) and LOVE the new feel........is there more

.........

 

[HeloMech74]

I won the set of speedbleeders from Cyclebrakes, and let me tell you, those things are great. Once the line was primed with fluid, all I had to do was just keep pulling and releasing the lever until it purged all the air from the line and then tighten the bleeder. No more pump, pump, pump hold stuff. I didn't get 2 for the rear caliper so I bought another one locally, then installed them both. I cracked them a 1/4 turn attached a line to each and bled both sides of the caliper at the same time. Nice to do that on the front too.

 

[semi]

looks good OZZY

what did you use to paint your calipers? and don't tell me paint, i know that

or could you actually have them powdercoated and if so, which would be more durable...i was wondering what would be the best way to go since i want to make mine black also

 

[SANDFLEA85]

i just put the light weight galffer brake lines all around,hh pads and galffer wave rotors,front wasnt a problem to bleed but i noticed you have your lines doubled up at the resevoir ,never seen that before.mine are doubled up at the right caliper.i bled from the left caliper,just a thopught as to why it may have taken you a while to get all the air out.

 

[OZZY]

(semi @ Oct. 05 2007,12:07) looks good OZZY

what did you use to paint your calipers?  and don't tell me paint, i know that

or could you actually have them powdercoated and if so, which would be more durable...i was wondering what would be the best way to go since i want to make mine black also

i used a duplicolor caliper paint kit from autozone. it was kind of a pain in the ass to do because the paint was super thin and ran like crazy. if i had to do it all over again i would have just picked up a set of stock black ones from another yr busa. between paint and powdercoat, i would choose to go the powder coating route. the calipers turned out decent, but not totally to my liking.

 

[OZZY]

im sure the dual front line kit was the biggest issue as far and the bleeding goes. i mean realistically you are bleeding two seperate lines full of air. in my case with the two front lines, it really didnt matter what caliper we started the bleed at, eventhough we did the left caliper first. everyone was beyotchin about bleeding the rear and clutch lines, but those two lines bled right up without much delay at all....

i cant wait to actually get out and get a real good feel for the upgraded braking!!!

 

[HeloMech74]

(DEVLDOG @ Oct. 05 2007,11:18) I noticed you have your lines doubled up at the resevoir ,never seen that before.mine are doubled up at the right caliper.i bled from the left caliper,just a thopught as to why it may have taken you a while to get all the air out.

Most all the kits out for the Busa are designed like this. I know Spiegler has the stock fitment with the dual lines at the caliper, I wasn't aware that Galfer had them, as a matter of fact I asked about it and they didn't unless they were custom made. Were your lines custom made? I also got the lightweight lines as well (black with Black fittings, but mine is a dual line kit from the master cylinder.)

 

[DR1300R]

Looks real good Ozzy.. You will love the difference I'm talking 1 and 2 finger braking..

ps; I'll get on them forks as soon as I can..

 

[Revolution]