I might be wrong but as far as I can make out, you still need to buy the vacuum unit to replace the brake fluid?
Hey Muzza, he's got a YouTube clip of himself flushing his system and only uses a glass jar, I've got a cheap Ebay unit you connect to your air compressor to pull the fluid through so not a big deal anyway. Without cycling the HCU with a bleeder open, you won't get all the fluid out.
They are on special at the moment Doc, exchange rate is horrible though
I get that people want to do this themselves and the dealer prices are a bit out there at times, I take mine in for it and get the clutch done as well even though I could do that but they do it for stuff all while doing the brakes. The reason it needs to be changed properly is because there is not much of it, it absorbs moisture and can lead to the ABS unit not working as it should or in some cases the brakes not working at all, cycling the unit is necessary to get the fluid that is in it out of it, these buggas are heavy and Fred Flintstone-ing it just isn't an option.
Yes I totally understand what you are saying Hilly and Paul, however changing 70 percent of it every 6 months should avoid issues, as the water content should even out throughout the fluid, and when I have a spare $250 laying about I'll get em to do it. All I can do for the moment.
And like most of you have had plenty plenty of bikes and mostly jap bikes. Other than race bikes just would bleed the brakes every now and again and jam in fresh fluid and have never had an ABS issue, then i bought a Harley..
Mines Dot 4 Hilly
Never had an abs bike until this one, bloody Harley's aye.
Forgot to mention the cam chain failure on my Vf 750, the regulator failure on my VTR 1000, the piston seizure on my H2 750 and on and on...
Hard on the gear ol fella :)
Yeah GM, I hear ya, was gonna buy the cam bearing install and removal tool recently but held off for same reason, still waiting for my upgraded HD oil pump and last eta was May so will hold out a bit longer.
