Nah...I'm not sayin they're "defective"...not exactly.I'm suggesting that MAYBE the guy I bought my "new" M/C from....MAYBE he got a hold of a batch of factory units that he sold as separate deals not realizing they were "factory seconds" or something.IDK.I can't see Kawasaki allowing faulty parts to enter the customer base...but who knows....perhaps he got these from...CHINA or something,stamped and looking exactly like a factory part.IDK.It certainly didn't cost the same as a factory unit...that's for sure.Wouldn't be the first time counterfeits were out there.ANYONE could get a Kawasaki shipping box I'm pretty sure.With that first one...we(my mechanic and I)determined that the return hole was not okay somehow.It wasn't allowing the fluid to return sufficiently back into the M/C.All the bleeding in the world wasn't gonna help THIS situation.And the manual DOES mention about "getting pieces of rubber" (or whatever) lodged in that return hole.It does.So this may have been what was wrong.I didn't actually rip it apart to fully look at it.
I installed this unit after my crash...the original perch and M/C had been virtually torn off the bike...well,the lines anyway.The M/C ended up being gouged into the dirt.Along with the broken lines.It could have EASILY gotten dirt in that line(which didn't need replacing).When i installed the "new" M/C(came as a full unit,perch and reservoir and all),I installed,and bled the lines.I didn't see anything wrong...no dirt or anything.But it IS possible,since I didn't do a full fluid replacement(the slave was fine)...that it migrated back into the M/C somehow....restricting that return line in the process.There may have actually been nothing wrong with that M/C at all.IDK.Works GREAT now ever since!
* Last updated by: blue07 on 6/8/2011 @ 4:08 PM *