I have 06 SV650 that I had a bare rear tire. I bought a whole new wheel/sprocket/rotor off of ebay cheap that was on an 07 sv650s. Everything installed great but my rear brake now barely catches. I bled the brakes and still no different. It still seems to open/close fine, it's almost like the new rotor is just thinner.
I don't have the service manual (shame on me, I know), but is there any other way to fix this other than to pull the rear wheel off again and switch it back to the original rotor?
is the top still off of the fluid reservoir? give it should take a couple pumps of the working lever to get things seated right after the top is back on with the gasket thing.
I gave it several pumps when I was bleeding. I had a pretty knowledgeable friend look at it last night and he said to just bleed it again. Hopefully that will do the trick.
I did a very long and tedious brake bleed last night and the problem is solved. Because the brakes were barely catching, it took forever to get any pressure. I think I had a bubble in the line that was only started coming out when I could get some real pressure on the rear brake. Thanks for the help everybody.
I've seen people mention that bleeding the rear brake on the sv650 is easy. I had the worst time bleeding mine even with this [ame]http://www.amazon.com/Mityvac-MV8000-Automotive-Test-Bleeding/dp/B00265M9SS/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1348577051&sr=8-2&keywords=mityvac[/ame]
I had to purchase it because I spent about 1 hour trying to bleed without it and no luck.
The SV is the only brakes I have ever bled. When there was some existing pressure, I thought it was pretty easy and straight forward. When pressure was low, it took a lot of patience.
buy a mityvac. I can bleed front and rear brakes and the hydraulic clutch on my ZRX in under 30 minutes by myself. It is quite possibly the greatest tool ever.
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