Make easy bleeder location for fitting behind fairing?

[Al st1100]

I did write that, and they will if cheap poorly designed hydraulic lifters and valve train parts are installed, which I didn't do, so they didn't. That was on older engine designs so I guess that I just got lucky several times over. Hydraulic lifters on a modern design overhead cam engine is capable of even higher RPM's.

What your talking about is a "limited travel lifter" which are not actually a hydraulic lifter.

 

[Andrew Shadow]

What your talking about is a "limited travel lifter" which are not actually a hydraulic lifter.

I am well aware of what I put in since I had to pay for them, and since I have no plans to ever attempt to figure out a way to retrofit my ST1300 it of no consequence to me either.

 

[Andrew Shadow]

I have owned several (7) 1100. I checked the valves a few times and blew off doing it again. They were all in spec. On one of the bikes, at 104K miles, all 8 valves were within factory specs.

While that is good fortune it does not indicate that mechanical valves never need checking and adjusting and therefore they can be ignored. It means that you were fortunate. This is a maintenance item that needs to be done. People on this forum regularly post about how many valves that they had to re-shim to get them back in to spec as testament to that. The salient point of my post was that hydraulic valves are always in spec. without the need for inspections or interventions.

 

[Nightmare]

Something like this would work:

But thinking about it a bit more, I think it would need to connected to vacuum to keep air out of the system since the bleed hose isn't directly connected.

Whoa... that's pretty cool, any idea what it is called/where to get one?

 

[Igofar]

So it's not possible to access the bleed valve through the fairing with a hole?

short answer.....NO

 

[chmotard]

I'm not certain, but the hose circled in the photo appears to be connected to the clutch control bleed point.
If so, perhaps the principle could be applied to the upper bleed point (near the fuel tank ) of the brake system ?