Job will include disassembly and cleaning of the whole system, so if I'm still not satisfied when it's done, it shall remain a mystery...
Play In Clutch Lever
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DaveW
, Feb 20 2021 05:30 pm
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Posted 26 March 2021 - 07:20 am
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Posted 26 March 2021 - 09:03 am
Your original oem lines are braided but 19 years could certainly have them knackered, hopefully new lines will sort the issue.
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Posted 26 March 2021 - 09:20 am
Well I hope they will cause I really don't have the time & mental capacity right now for starting the whole thing all over with a different bike. I work in healthcare...
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Posted 26 March 2021 - 09:26 pm
Well I hope they will cause I really don't have the time & mental capacity right now for starting the whole thing all over with a different bike. I work in healthcare...
You should have lots of patients then. 
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Posted 27 March 2021 - 05:36 am
See what you did there Dave !!! LOL !
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Posted 27 March 2021 - 09:32 am
Well I hope they will cause I really don't have the time & mental capacity right now for starting the whole thing all over with a different bike. I work in healthcare...
My lines would swell under pressure too.
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Posted 28 March 2021 - 06:57 am
My lines would swell under pressure too.
So, did you replace them with fresh braided lines?
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Posted 28 March 2021 - 08:53 am
Hydraulics is a matter of physics, liquids are incompressible so if lever has no pressure or is spongy something definitely isn't right. Start with master cylinder seals clean and rebuild everything then move on to calipers. Brakes are a safety item. No corners can be cut.
If the seals are 19 years old time for a rebuild.
If the seals are 19 years old time for a rebuild.
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Posted 28 March 2021 - 10:01 am
So, did you replace them with fresh braided lines?
In the end i changed them, but. I rode it like that for a while too and it passed the MOT easily on front braking force anyway.
But the new braided lines were an improvement for sure.
After reading this thread I tried to see about using one finger on the brakes and yes, they're definitely good enough for one finger use. I have large hands and big fingers though
I don't have much else to compare the TDM to to be honest - a KTM620 with a large single disk front brake is my other bike and that stoppies on demand(although only weighs 148kg). I know a TDM can stoppie, and I would say the front brakes with new braided hoses would make it possible, but it's on the heavy side for me to feel confident enough to try it, and at 17 stone in weight myself i would probably bend the forks !
Edited by fixitsan, 28 March 2021 - 10:02 am.
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