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@M_V
Fuck me, hydros are a shitting nightmare.
My SLX front brake has been leaking (I think) from between the caliper halves.
I’ve been using a set of Guides that I have but when I was out on the bike there other day the front was rubbing and I couldn’t get it not to so that spotted me on to getting the SLXs sorted.
I bought a rear Deore 4 pot from Merlin which arrived as the lever and the caliper/hose separate so I hooked the caliper and hose up to my SLX lever today, got a good bleed on it, had to do other stuff so left it sitting in the garage with the bleed block in, went back out just before dinner to put the pads back in and install it and gave it a little squeeze to check it still felt nice and a bit of the piston pinged off and a jet of oil squirted out the hole!
Have contacted Merlin to but I’m thinking that they might be shitty about it since I bought a rear brake and cut the hose down to front brake length and the Deore lever is sitting there untouched with its little bung in etc because I was hooked it up to my SLX lever.
Silver lining: I took the Guide front brake off off in anticipation of putting the SLXs back on and then obviously had to refit the Guide and someone along the line it stopped rubbing!
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