Thustler

Nice little vid, good to see some normal riding as opposed to top level stuff all the time.

Finally managed to bodge my way around the problem, what I think has happened is a part of the rubber diaphragm has lodged between the lever piston and reservoir and blocked the flow, I got around this by bleeding it directly through the hose where the lever attaches and then filling the lever with fluid and carefully putting it back on, I then filled the reservoir and tried the brake and it's working again, better than it was before. Massive bodge but oh well it works, thanks for all the advice. Tom.

Nope, doesn't budge, left it for a good hour.

Rebuilt the lever and cleaned out the internals and it still won't pump oil through, anyone else had this problem?

Think I have finally got to the bottom of this, upon taken the whole system apart I realised that when I pump the lever with it not attached to the hose but with the reservoir full of oil the oil isn't even pumping through, upon trying to take the lever apart I also realised that the lever reach allen bolt is rounded off, which is a bit of the nightmare, I suspect that a piece of the rubber diaphram which was admittedly degrading a bit has got into the inner workings of the lever and blocked it up. Next step is to figure out how to get past my rounded off allen bolt.

Having exactly the same problem, when I pump the brake there's no pressure in the system at all the brake was working until I tried to bleed it just not to the level I wanted really,

Thanks, I'll give it another go tomorrow and let you know how I go on.

I've been trying to bleed my Hope mono trial brake (Older model, probably around 05) following this video... I've ran into a probem in that when I pull the lever in with the bleed valve open and then lock the valve and release the lever, it appears that the fluid level in the lever reservoir isn't dropping and no fluids being pumped through, anyone got any potential remedies for this? Thanks Tom