Another rear brake pedal has no pressure tried to bleed with no luck. Any sugestions?

 

If you’re bleeding it right then you have mechanical wear or failure of some kind. How are your rear pads? Worn out pads can cause a low pedal but bleeding it right and adding fluid would bring it up if that’s the problem. It seems getting a little air in the rear system on late model Sportsmans is common, and it takes very little for it to cause a low pedal. Bleeding it usually cures it though, it’s a simple system.

 

Floodrunner is right it is a simple system. One of two thing are happening, your either not getting all the air out when bleeding or you have a seal that is bad allowing air to get into the brake system.

 

I'm having the same problem and bleeding it don't work. I'm more conserend with the shifting mechanism though. It seems to be harder to get into gear. Is their any way to tell if air is getting back into the line. If thats the case it must be happening during the bleeding process cause it won't tighten up at all.

 

First, make sure you have brake fluid in the rear reservoir. Pump the pedal slowly (so you don’t cause the brake fluid to foam) to try to build up some pressure, then hold the pedal down as you crack the bleeder valve. Close the valve with the pedal still down, let go of the pedal, refill the brake fluid and repeat as many times as necessary until you “get a pedal.” Make sure your rear pads are good.

The hydraulic rear brake has no effect on shifting. The ability to shift into Park or High is controlled mechanically by a spring between the brake pedal arm and a “paw” inside the shift mechanism on the tranny. If you can press the pedal down, whether or not you have rear brakes, you’ll release the paw allowing you to shift into Park or High. Hard shifting is another problem entirely. I’d look for the cure to that problem in clutch alignment or belt wear.

 

floodrunner: Thanks for the advice. My pads are a little low, but I still couldn't get it to bleed out. Of ourse there was 2 of us and I was on the bike so I'll try the other way around tonight and see what I come up with. Brakes are over rated any way, as long as I can shift into high and go forward I'm good.

 

"A little low" won't hurt anything, you have air in your brake lines. If you can't get the air out by bleeding properly you have a bad seal in the cylinder or caliper. Good Luck!

 

floodrunner: hows that boom box working for you? I'm working on one with a weatherproof mp3 player that has am/fm hooked to a little amp and some marine speakers. I'm trying to figure out how to have the speakers facing out without getting mud in them. Unfortunatley the day I picked up my mp3 player I realized my computer was fried. Trying to decide on a new computer these days isn't very easy, thinking about a Mac G5 but I've never owned an Apple and dont know much about it. Luckily I still have my work computer to keep communication open with you guys. By the way, the only time I've used LOW is when I was pulling an Artic Cat out of a puddle I had just went over the top of in 2 high.lol

 

The only real disappointment I’ve had with the BOOM! Box is the CD player stopped working right away due to the rigors of trail life. Too many hard landings I guess (hehehe). Other than that it works and sounds great. I don’t have an antenna for the radio so I just listen to playlists from my 30 gig mp3 player that lives in the box lid with the rest of the components.