The neww replacement line from suzuki is stainless steel and not a rubber hose and works really well. what happens is the rubber swells and will make for a spongey clutch or the steel will corrode under the rubber sleeve causeing a loss in pressure and fluid you will not see the leaks perhaps untill you remove the old line. The fix is replace the hydrolic line from the master to the slave cylinder.the original from the factory is a mix of rubber and steel. The problem is most likly not the clutch master cylinder. SOURCE: 1995 Suzuki Intruder 1400 clutch feels spongy It will eat paint and mess up other things. Tighten the bleeder valve, remove the tubing, top off the fluid and replace the covers.īe careful not to get brake fluid on anything. Be sure to keep the fluid level up in the reservoir. Work the clutch lever until you stop getting bubbles in the jar. Place the other end of the tube down in the break fluid in the jar. Take the cover off the master cylinder up at the handlebars, place the tube over the end of the bleed valve (after loosening it a turn or two. Follow the instructions on the bleeder kit, or if you're using the jar and tubing, fill the jar about a quarter of the way with break fluid (use DOT4, but never DOT5!). Go to an auto parts store and get a "one man bleeder kit" or if you have some plastic tubing that will fit over the valve, you can use that and a clean jar. One the left-hand side of the bike (facing forward), there is cover plate just ahead of the drive shaft. SOURCE: Clutch bleed on a Suzuki 1400 Intruder 2000 In addition I would pay attention to the exaust setup, footpegs and any other hard parts that would interfere with agressive cornering(Lean angle).Some exausts hang SO far down on cruisers that they really limit how far you can bend er over.all that stuff needs to be removed, changed or modified so you can corner good up to the suspensions limit. A simple modification that I would myself do if I had a cruiser, would be the addition of a fork brace.a chunk of aluminum that strengthens the two front fork tubes.so that they don't flex (As much!). The raked out front forks of cruisers make for a very stable platform but are not designed to be turned hard. The best scenario is SMOOTH sweeping turns, the suspension in its' current form cannot deal with irregularities in the road.sportbikes' suspensions are meticulously calibrated for these real world curcumstances.cruisers cannot do this. The Intruder does handle fairly well compared to its' counterparts of the cruiser class, by handling I would assume your talking about how well it behaves in turns.since this class of machine IS the cruiser type do not expect to keep up with the current or past generations of sportbikes as you will fall behind. SOURCE: How well does the Suzuki 1400 cc Intruder handle?
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