Hello,
I didn't ride my bike for about 3 months and when I took it out today I noticed the front brakes were very spongy. the brakes would work but the lever travelled very far almost to the grips.
I figured I would need to bleed the brakes and started on it without using a vacuum pump bleeder. Just the regular plastic tubing in a cup, pull lever open valve close valve technique. I am not sure what went wrong but I never got back my brakes after that first attempt at bleeding. the brake lever has no resistance and freely moves back and forth now. and I have zero brakes.
I then bought a mityvac brake bleeder and tried bleeding the 2 front calipers and got plenty of air bubbles and it never stopped bubbling. I feel like there is leak somewhere.
When I tried to bleed the master cylinder, all I would get is air under vacuum, no brake fluid. and the pump would not hold vacuum at the M/C, it would keep losing vacuum. Is this normal?
any suggestions?, thanks in advance.