 All right guys, so it turned out that the master cylinder on the 96 was bad and my spare that I had was bad Also, I took the brake lever off The piston is not going all the way out like it should it should come out It should come out further So I did have a third one but it turned out This piece is broken off that bolts onto the handlebar You don't have to take it apart this far. I just did I've never taken one of these apart before and once I realized how easy it was to take apart I had to shoot a video on it just to show you guys. So now you notice I said take apart I haven't put it back together yet. So we're gonna find out together how it goes back together and Actually, it's a it's pretty simple. All right, so this is what your master cylinder looks like It comes right out of that hole Once you remove that it's got two rubber Brommets on each end and they make a repair kit for this Like I said, I've never taken one apart before but now that I see how easy it is to take apart I'm gonna start buying the repair kits because You know why I spend so much money on one of these Not knowing if it's gonna work if you got a used one Also a little tip. I found that buying like motorcycle Handbrakes are actually better. Like I've actually bought one from a used katana and put it on Polaris and had the same fitting on end And it worked out beautifully and it held up better than than these do so Okay, so we're gonna take this bad boy apart. I'm gonna show you how to do it and We'll see how it goes back together. So I don't know if you can see in the light here. There is an O-ring right here and there's a little tab to put push your screwdriver in So I'm gonna push this in and get that O-ring out The only thing holding this together is that O-ring, which is really bizarre I'm gonna go ahead and do that Just push down your plunger pushed in that is I got two bad ones here If I screw it up I'm really not out anything. So they probably end up having to buy one again. Anyway a little bit more of that ring Here's that O-ring and This should just pull right up. Oh, well, you can see my problem It's rusty I'm guessing the spring probably failed. It wasn't pushing it back all like it should The gaskets look good. So it just looks like it's the spring Get a closer look at that See it's rusty spring's weak It wasn't pushing it back out like it should and now we're gonna put this back together The first part is easy. It's that second ring. That's kind of a pain. I'll take a little screwdriver I'm just trying to push the lips of the yes get in without damaging it. We'll just push it in We'll ring in make sure you put it in the right direction Flange has to be up. I'd push this in and The idea is to get this kind of lip and I don't know if you can see that in the camera. There's a Bevel area So you want it just pushed into that point so that'll tuck in there Just about got it Try to get you in the light so you can see that It's all the way around Take a beveled edge that that O-ring has to tuck underneath that holds the piston in place So now you see how this one's broken right here. You don't have to take that off I took mine off because it's nice and clean compared to this one So I'm gonna replace that right away. Check that O-ring in there and I should have a good handbrake I test it out Popping all the way out like it should now So there you have it and if you want to take that off, there's two screws at the bottom pull right out Put the new one in put the screws back in Make sure everything lines up put your hand lever back on and There you have it one master cylinder rebuilt Hope that helped you out. I know that wasn't a really good visual because here I'm trying to push this piston in while I'm getting the O-ring in but Hopefully you'll get the idea. Last and most important thing is once you get this reinstalled It's your fluid in. Don't forget to bleed your master cylinder. I've got a Bleeder set You can get that at any automotive store. It's going down into a Juggle brake fluid. I'm gonna start squeezing the Lever and watch the air bubbles come out See it's working pushing the air out bubbles coming out of here. It's a good sign. It means it's working as long as that jar fills up with brake fluid and That fluid level goes down You know, this is working right Let's see the bubbles coming out Make sure all the bubbles are out using this back and forth See bubbles in there. This might take a while Just keep going back and forth So you don't see any more bubbles the fluid level is going down. That's a good sign It means it's pushing the fluid out, but now this might take a while. So I'm not gonna videotape the whole process And I am gonna top off Fluid Keep going. So that's a good sign that it's dropping. That means Fluid is going into the jar. That means it'll push it through the brake system, which that was a problem I was having before Was the cylinder didn't go all back all the way and it wasn't pushing the fluid through Pumped everything up Cracked her bleeder screw Watch all that. She's pumping up finally. Yeah, that's good. She's working pushing all that air out Brakes are starting to grab finally my fluid level. It's getting low. We're gonna top it off Always got to keep an eye on that if you start sucking air You're gonna have to start all over again. Yeah, I can feel a brake staining up air is pushing out Which if I turn this not say yep staining up, that's good I'm gonna take enough that valve Fluid level you go. I had to set the camera on the tripod. I'm gonna squeeze the brake lever and see what we got Well, yeah, she's tight. I finally got brakes. Yeah All right, so you saw my little trick. There was no back bleeding a lot of guys you use the syringe or That mighty vac, which I have no faith in it never worked for me It's all I did was I put a hose in the jar and the other end of the hose on the Peckock for the the brake and Blood that arrow Cranked her tight While I released the handle it was actually sucking fluid back in so I Pumped all the arrow Tighten it up and boom. I've got brakes. Hope this helped you out It's kind of a long process for me because my master cylinder didn't work But hopefully it's something that you guys can check into so there you have it. That's how I've lead my brakes Couple different methods zoo in it. Oh and one more thing So it turned out the brake line the real Curved up one. I was up by the master cylinder Turned to be pretty rusty at the end And I was blowing air through here and nothing a little bit was coming up not much So that was telling me there was some rust getting into the master cylinder. That's probably what wrecked it And let me show you one more little trick. Now you see this setup. I got here This is like off a 99 Scrambler. It's got the newer style hose Like I said, I went to the the hardware store got an adapter It was a quarter inch eighth inch And tighten up my line and like I said, do you if you do that you pretty much put any master cylinder you want on there And when I say breath master cylinder I mean the whole brake lever to keep that in mind if you want to change something out and like I said in my previous video I have used motorcycle brake handles before I Used the I bought a used one off a katana and she worked pretty good and I use the same setup It's one thing I haven't checked yet is Of the back brakes turn out and I have one guy asking about that to go through that yet But I've got front brakes. That's what matters to me So if you like this video hit thumbs up subscribe I've got plenty of players repairs on there and like always till next time