Bled em last night with my mity-vac and I had towels and coverings over every inch of exposed paint... No WAY I was testing that theory.
Could not get to a good "feel" - they are not spongy but the brakes are catching like an inch or so off the grips...
The pads look good, going to re-bleed left to right and try again tonight. The master cylinder had some serious funk in it...cloudy/milky looking from sitting I guess. Going to pick up a 60cc syringe and try a reverse bleed, heard it works better then the other methods with the DOT 5.
Love doing this.
Sean
Sean, what you're describing sounds like a pretty typical pedal/lever feel for DOT5 that entrained air. You poor bastard.
If the syringe will give you enough of a venturi effect for the speed increase to cause any agitation at all that method won't help. Unfortunately the only thing you can do with DOT5 fluid is pour it very gently, from bottles that have been handled very carefully and pump very slowly. And if it has entrained air within the fluid you sometimes just have to let it set. For awhile.
When I got the Road Glide home a couple months ago rebuilt the hydraulics on the wheels and replaced the master cylinders. While doing that flushed the lines and went back with a synthetic DOT4 just because DOT5 can
sometimes be such a pain in the arse.