Good evening all... late as usual. Today has been cool with beautiful blue skies. We've has that for nearly a week now, amazing.
Well, my outfit started suffering from the 1100s clutch problems.... very soft lever when hot... which equates to town/city centres in slow traffic... just when a sidecar outfit most needs its clutch. So, having read, read and re-read the threads on here I bit the bullet and ordered a new slave cylinder and bits. Now, those who have followed me will know that I hate, hate, hate mechanicing. However, I thought I'd give it a go... wasn't looking forward to having to loosen the header pipes, nor messing around with the bleeding
So, lower fairing off... check the 'awkward' bolt.... hmmmm loads of room... so three bolts undone, old slave cylinder disconnected and removed... god, what a load scum in there
cleaned out and gasket remains liberally soakedwith brake cleaner then pryed off with a small stanley knife. New gasket fitted, new slave cylinder bolted on, hydraulic hose reconnected and off to bed. This morning went like this. Refill the the clutch system with brake fluid, bleed then check. Now, having read the threads I thought I was going to have to 'crack' open the line at the master cylinder to get a solid feel, but no..... brake fluid in (I have a vacuum type bleeder pump) pump the fluid through and close the bleed nipple. Yee gods, I have a solid clutch lever... this is just too good to be true.... refit the lower fairing and test ride into Cheltenham to see if the lever goes soft in heat and traffic.... nope all fine
Where have I gone wrong
