I swear by this stuff for cleaning contaminated pads and rotors:
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Right on! Thanks for the recommendation! Iām gonna pick some up
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Correct. I now canāt remember if they come with olive and barbs, but do they donāt, yes you will need to stop by. Oddly big online shop here in Bellingham didnāt have olive and barb to sell to me. Luckily my hose kit had them. (Note the hose. Either BH-59, or more likely BH-90 if already Deore level-barbs are different due to internal hose diameter).
Also, when swapping shitty cable actuated brakes to trekking (multi finger lever) shimano brakes on our e-bike rentals, I simply resorted to using a box cutter on flat surface because we obviously ran a tight ship without proper tools and said cable actuated brakes locking up no matte what you did to them. And box cutter clean cut, then add rubber sleeve, compression nut, olive and barb, we were good to go. No need for a lever bleed.
I thought other tarckers ask so saw that lower level shimano stuff was almost easier at this than upper crust ish.
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Iāve had really great experience with cheap, non-series shimano brakes on Ashās Vaya for like five years and now on my new Wolverine for a few months. Theyāre great brakes at an absolutely unbeatable price. In the five or so years theyāve been on Ashās bike, theyāve needed no maintenance whatsoever. I did a lever bleed on them the other day because I was giving the bike a general tune up, but they didnāt really even need that. They felt fine before I did it and they feel great now. atmo, of course. YMMV
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Me, too. Universal often has them on sale for little more than the price of new pads.
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I too busy use a box cutter or cable cutter on the hose. It aināt rocket science. Unless you really mutilate the hose end, it wonāt leak.
QBP has been out every time Iāve looked for the last year +. I couldnāt find them in a bike shop last summer either (didnāt really look this year). Iām literally just sitting on two bikes that need hoses trimmed because iām afraid of using my last spare barb and olive until I get more, lest I need it in an emergency.
Is something like this worth having on hand?
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You should definitely not listen to these jabronis. Buy a proper cable cutter but I dunno about an $80 cable cutter.
Iāve got a 25$ jagwire one. The shimano tool has a barb pusher which is nice but you can get a XBIKOR brand barb pusher on Amazon for another 25.
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Donāt worry Iām not. Iām only fucking with the correct tools.
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I bought the separate Jagwire needle driver and hose cutter tools that probably total that much and havenāt regretted it.
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Looks like the jagwire barb pusher is also ~25$
You probably want some sort of bleed kit too, not sure whatās the best these days.
Itās nice to have the right tools. Itās also nice that they idiot-proof the system because liability. Def donāt listen to me but listen to Frank lol.
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Yeah, I encourage proper tools. I think I have the jagwire set, as Rusty says closer to $50. I was just trying to say it is a pretty forgiving setup vs the DOT Fluid crue.
I have had cheap shimano syringe that probably said one time use and I used it for many years. Kinda wish I got the park tool kit on Q but even then it is like $85 for nice dual syringe and all the connectors for TRP and such. I think the biggest thing they have is the little strap that holds it to fork or seatstay while you fiddle with the bleed cup.
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I was already grabbing some ESI Chunkies and bar end plugs off Amazon so I added this for $22, if it lasts me for one whole bikes worth of brake hose work Iāll call it good
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Send em to me so I can practice before doing it on my own bike
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Is there a bleed kit named something like āSLAUTHā? You could have a disk brake kit of sloth and torpor.
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Probably, everything on Amazon is a knockoff with a made up word for a name
i just cut the hoses with a dremel and bash the barb in with my fingers and a hammer
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