I was trying to bleed the front brakes on my '11 Electra Glide, and when I opened the bleeder value and pumped the brake, the fluid came from just below the banjo bolt and washer, and not from the top of the bleeder value.

Any suggestions, other than trying to press down on banjo bolt to get the fluid to come from the top of the value?

Thanks in advance.

 

first off you never pump the brakes with the bleeder open. you will take air into brake system. you open bleeder pull handle back, have and assistant tighten bleeder assy up let handle up and repeat procedure. till all air is bleed out. and there is no way the fluid came from the banjo bolt if you only loosened the bleeder valve assy is what you said. it must have landed on it when you were pumping brake handle. before you touched the brakes if the banjo bolt was loose you would have had a leak there because there is brake line pressure around banjo bolt and the copper sealing washers. when you apply the brakes. that you would have noticed.

 

Get some small vacuum hose that will fit snuggly over tip of bleeder screw long enough to touch ground. Take a 12 oz cup and fill it with brake fluid 1/4 way , open master cylinder , attach vacuum hose to bleeder and submerge other end into brake fluid in cup making sure it stays submerged in fluid in cup the whole process, loosen bleeder screw and keep open until done ,pump brake slowly making sure master cylinder does not empty all the way, pump brake and add fluid until fluid comes out clear, close bleeder valve, fill and screw down mater cylinder cap to 9 inch lb. yes I was skeptical too but it works great with no fluid all over rotors .

 

when i bleed i just use a hose and a cup... hook the hose to the bleeder and put it in the cup... pump the lever, hold it in, crack the bleeder (keeping the lever in) then closet he bleeder, and pump again... repeat this till bled... i usually do 3-5 pumps per bleeder opening... i think this works even better than using my mityvac!