Who wants to bleed my brakes?

[dhuze]

So I finally registered my bike and decided to take it for a ride. I got out onto the main road and when I got to the lights my brake went away. I have been trying to bleed them and I can't get a drop of brake fluid to come out. I had to stop because I want to kick the fucking thing over then beat the neighbors cat.
I bled them a couple months ago with now with no problem. Today I get nothing. No pressure, no fluid and no patience.

[G21forme]

Get one of those brake bleeding pumps.

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Or ride to boston w/ a bottle of dot 4 and I'll do it for you

[stoinkythepig]

Brakes don't go from being correctly bled to suddenly needing a good bleeding. I'm guessing something else went wrong. Can you pump them up and get a firm lever? Any idea why they suddenly went away? Were they fine then "nothing"?

[dhuze]

They felt fine when I left my house. I stopped once, then the second time they werent there. I had rear brakes and I rode it back to my house. I cant pump them up at all.

[stoinkythepig]

Sounds like a failed master cylinder or caliper. My guess would be MC. What year and model bike?

[butcher bergs]

I second the failed master cylinder.

[ZX11D]

Just curious, did you check the brake fluid level. If there is fluid then I`m with stoinky and bergs on this one.

[dhuze]

It's a 2003 SV650S Yeah I checked the fluid.

[stoinkythepig]

Should be easy to find a rebuild kit or an entire MC; that's a really common bike and it uses an MC found on tons of other bikes.

Any leakage at the calipers? Did a pad happen to fall out? If there's no obvious reason for the problem, buy and install a new MC, or rebuild yours.

[DucDave]

If either the master or calipers failed, wouldn't the fluid be leaking? Or, to ask another way, is it possible for a hydrolic failure without a leak? Can't picture it...

Oh, wait...yes I can. If it's the Master Cylinder and the piston 'o rings?' fail then the brake fluid wouldnt be pushed to the calipers...but there would be no leak! Right?

[stoinkythepig]

If either the master or calipers failed, wouldn't the fluid be leaking? Or, to ask another way, is it possible for a hydrolic failure without a leak? Can't picture it...

If the calipers fail, you'd see a leak. If the master fails, it leaks, but it leaks into the fluid reservoir.

[The Magician]

try cracking the actual banjo bolts to see if you can get some fluid flowing...

If not, good chance of the failed master.

[dhuze]

I'm just going to bring it to the shop. I'm not really in the mood for fixing it right now. That and I'm being lazy.