(12-03-2015, 01:40 PM)PartyJas Wrote: The new fluid wont mix with the old so you haven't really achieved anything with just changing the fluid in the reservoir. You need to sort the broken nipple and bleed the system through properly with new fluid.
Then how did the fluid in the reservoir get so brown in the first place? There must be some sort of diffusion happening at some rate. Don't know this from experience just instinctively. Although I did once bleed the brakes on an old bmw with a shared brake and clutch reservoir, switched to blue fluid but crucially didn't bleed the clutch- then when I came to bleed clutch some 6 months later it he become blue! (Hence some fluid circulation of some description...)
(12-03-2015, 02:02 PM)Eeyore Wrote: er... If you have Sheared the nipple and already put air in the system I would assume its going to be near impossible bleed it all properly. You need to get that nipple sorted and do it all over again. What tool were you using on the nipple?
Sheered it before it opened! Was using an 11mm spanner