Help after a front brake job

[namari]

The bike has been ridden since it was changed. You would still change it?

[alantf]

Each to his own. Mine's still got the original, factory, 2007, fluid in it, and I'm perfectly happy. In 50 years of riding/driving I've never changed the fluid in my vehicles, and I'm still around to tell the tale, but who knows? :cool:

[jonathan180iq]

I would change it, but I'm not saying you have to or anything. It's just a thing with me.

Read the back of a bottle of brake fluid. As soon as the seal on the bottle is broken, it begins to absorb moisture to the point that what you don't use after opening should be discarded and not used. The same is true for what you have in your lines today. The system is sealed, but impurities still develop. It also slowly breaks down the lining of the brake lines, but that's not to say it's happening at an alarming rate or anything. Most people are fine, like Alan said, riding for years without worrying about it. And these aren't high performance machines and we don't boil our brake fluid doing around a track or anything. But, everything I stated above is true and I like clean and clear fluid. It also guarantees that I have a good brake bleed if nothing else.

So do you HAVE to change it? Nope. I'm just saying that I would if it were my bike, which it's not

[raul10141964]

open the blither, if the brake release is the house if don,t is the caliper

[JohnC]

The fact that you say you had to file the pads to get them in tells me either they are junk or you somehow got them hung up on the anti-rattle springs. No way the things you are experiencing are acceptable. If the brake is dragging the caliper will be fried and the rotor warped in short order.

Brake fluid should be changed out every 3 years or so. The water absorbed by the fluid reduces performance and causes corrosion in the metal parts of the system. New fluid is cheap insurance.