What do the bleeder looking screws do on the back of the front calipers? I was told you bleed the brakes both front and back from the back bleeder screw at of delarship. I also broke the bleeder screw off the front right caliper and then broke a nut extractor off inside the bleeder screw. Just kept getting worse... Any suggestions on what to do now?

I cannot get the brakes to firm up at all. How can a brake job on a 98 Sportsman 500 be harder to do than most cars.

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If you use some bargain bin screw extactors they will almost always break off.
If I were you I would take the caliper to a machine shop and they could do it for you rather than take a chance on boogering it up yourself and then you have to replace the caliper. Alot of automotive parts places have machine shop services available. I have a auto parts place right up the street and for $10 they have extracted many screws & bolts for me and alot of times they can do it in a couple of hours. Those guys do that stuff all the time and they know what they're doing. Or you can go buy some decent screw extractors and try it yourself.

You could probably just bleed the brakes from the back bleeder because the front brake line is tied to the one back side but I myself bled all the bleeders just to be sure I had all the air out of the line. The brakes are actually easier than a car I think. I replaced all my brakes and master cyinder in a couple of hours. I bled a whole reservoir full thru each bleeder when I did it. It sounds like you just had some back luck with a frozen bleeder. Once you get the bleeder freed up I think you will find they're not that difficult.

 

get a MITI-VAC brake bleeder system that uses vacuum to pull the fluid into a cup. you can do it yourself without having to pump the brake lever,just remove the M/C cap and attach the bleeder system to the bleeder screw,open the bleeder screw and use vacuum to pull the fluid through the system. watch you do not empty the M/C and draw more air into the system.

 

Find somebody with a mig welder, and weld a small **** on the bleeder,screw and vicegrip it out the heat from the welder does wonders for a seized bolt.

 

Guys thanks for the "great" advise. WGR, good idea that way I wont have two different size bleeders after drilling it out.

Polaris needs to put the same bleeders on the front's that they have on the back caliper. The pair on the back with the nice rubber cap are much nicer.