Brake fluid leaking after lowside

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Old 02-20-2012, 08:44 PM   #1
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Brake fluid leaking after lowside

As some of you know i lowsided my bike this afternoon. Now when i press the front brake, the lever goes soft and leaks out of the 10 or 12mm bolt thats directly underthe lever.

Any ideas?
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Old 02-20-2012, 08:45 PM   #2
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damn dude you are having a really bad day arent you?
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Old 02-20-2012, 08:46 PM   #3
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As some of you know i lowsided my bike this afternoon. Now when i press the front brake, the lever goes soft and leaks out of the 10 or 12mm bolt thats directly underthe lever.

Any ideas?
you might have broke the bolt itself on the MC or cracked the MC itself ....
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Old 02-20-2012, 08:53 PM   #4
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Extremely bad day. My cars oil filter backed out because someone switched them out at walmart from box to box


Kill me now.

Dumb question. How would i know if its the MC?
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^Thats why i always get my items from the very back, and check em.

Also you would have to inspect the bolts and area where the bolt screws in. Make sure the bolt is threaded right in the 1st place and not stripped, iv seen a few where that has been the case and your little lowside might have just been the iceing on the cake for it to start leaking. Looks like your lever took a nice bang so Kinda hard to tell you what to do but you just gotta look over everthing and tell us where the oil is leaking from EXACTLY
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