The rear brake cylinder is completely shot, so another re-build is in order, plus lots of cleaning.
The Cap was pretty nasty too.
Considered the cardinal sin of master cylinder rebuilding, you should never, ever, ever re-use the rubber cups, so I honed the cylinder and thought maybe just maybe I could get away with out replacing those cups. So I didn't replace them... I put it all back together bled the brake and once it built up enough pressure, blew out one of the cups. Lesson learned.
Here's the blown out cup. I broke down and bought a kit form a local motorcycle shop and now after a quick bleed down the rear brakes are working. Here's a link to get brake parts for you XS1100. Click
here!
BEFORE and
AFTER panting the tank.
The Flat black "Rat Rod" transformation has begun, but still has a long way to go!
The rear brake cylinder is completely shot, so another re-build is in order, plus lots of cleaning.
The Cap was pretty nasty too.
Considered the cardinal sin of master cylinder rebuilding, you should never, ever, ever re-use the rubber cups, so I honed the cylinder and thought maybe just maybe I could get away with out replacing those cups. So I didn't replace them... I put it all back together bled the brake and once it built up enough pressure, blew out one of the cups. Lesson learned.
Here's the blown out cup. I broke down and bought a kit form a local motorcycle shop and now after a quick bleed down the rear brakes are working. Here's a link to get brake parts for you XS1100. Click here!
BEFORE and AFTER panting the tank.
The Flat black "Rat Rod" transformation has begun, but still has a long way to go!
