It’s not often that I take the time to comment on a video, but you sir have produced THE BEST & most comprehensive bleed tutorial for the Sram DB8 brakes on the internet! I have been having trouble with mine feeling very spongy over the last few months. I have watched several other videos, including the official one from Sram & none of those videos were particularly helpful. The official Sram video was the worst! Your simple brute force technique used in this video has my DB8’s feeling like a different system! Sram should be thanking you for producing this! Well done sir & thank you 🎉
Cool glad to hear it helped. So I figured out how to bleed the sram mineral brakes the proper way without the $80 tool, just need 2 sets of generic syringes
I always use my bleed kit to suck all the fluid out before removing internal routed hoses , these DB8 are the easiest sram brakes I've ever bleed but that might change when I use my bleeding edge to bleed my code r
4:51, 5:07 & 11:46 The rear bottom spherical washer (light gray) on the caliper mount seems to be upside-down, which means it doesn't do its job properly and may get damaged under stress and vibration. But otherwise, good job.
would you know of this still has that plastic piston plunger on the lever? when the brake is left under the heat of the sun the plastic piston swells which makes the lever stuck. issue on previous sram brakesets
I feel like that hasn't been a problem in a really long time. All of our (10) bikes have some version of SRAM brake on them and the only ones I ever had the sticky lever piston with were a set of 2015 Guide RS's.
If it can help the bleed port thread you'll need for the fitting is m4 x 0.7 I had it in a roadbike kit, probably for Campagnolo, not sure. *Little update March 2024; I've been riding in a lot of shitty wintery mud so I figured I'd rebled them, the fluid was dark asf, the contamination probably came from the seals around the pistons so I opened the rear one, geez there was a lot of crap around the seals. I cleaned the best I could no visible scouring but the piston material is weird not really ceramic or typical nylon more like a hard polycarbonate... Pwetty weird stuff
I'm running them back to back with the codes RSC there's not a significant difference the lewis and saints need way less lever effort than both sram offerings but I'd rather have what ppl call "modulation" I ride a lot of heavy grade (mountainous Canadian area) and I never got them to fade, not unlike the mt5's they replaced 💀
It’s not often that I take the time to comment on a video, but you sir have produced THE BEST & most comprehensive bleed tutorial for the Sram DB8 brakes on the internet!
I have been having trouble with mine feeling very spongy over the last few months. I have watched several other videos, including the official one from Sram & none of those videos were particularly helpful. The official Sram video was the worst!
Your simple brute force technique used in this video has my DB8’s feeling like a different system!
Sram should be thanking you for producing this!
Well done sir & thank you 🎉
This was probably one of the most comprehensive and clerar instal and bleed tutorial I ever encounter on youtube... Thank you dude.
Cool glad to hear it helped. So I figured out how to bleed the sram mineral brakes the proper way without the $80 tool, just need 2 sets of generic syringes
Dude, the wiping your ass thing made me laugh. Thanks for testing the shimano stuff!
did the same thing but put shimano fluid in them,still work perfect after 6 months
Good to know I have a big jug
This brakes are very good especially considering their price!
I always use my bleed kit to suck all the fluid out before removing internal routed hoses , these DB8 are the easiest sram brakes I've ever bleed but that might change when I use my bleeding edge to bleed my code r
lol this is exactly what I need😂
FYI the lever went soft after 3 months use the recommended bleed method the cheap kits are available now
@@OtterMotiveGarage mine went soft after 3 months too.
this breaks are good? i think about DB8 or Magura MT5
Both suck
4:51, 5:07 & 11:46 The rear bottom spherical washer (light gray) on the caliper mount seems to be upside-down, which means it doesn't do its job properly and may get damaged under stress and vibration. But otherwise, good job.
yes i saw that. thats cancer :) i also don't use anymore washers. The tolerance are much better now then 10/15 years a go
would you know of this still has that plastic piston plunger on the lever? when the brake is left under the heat of the sun the plastic piston swells which makes the lever stuck. issue on previous sram brakesets
I feel like that hasn't been a problem in a really long time. All of our (10) bikes have some version of SRAM brake on them and the only ones I ever had the sticky lever piston with were a set of 2015 Guide RS's.
Could you do a lever bleed like a shimano brake? So just add the cup put some fluid in it and flick til bubbles clear?
FYI the lever went soft after 3 months use the recommended bleed method the cheap kits are available now
Same happened to me within 6 weeks. Back to Codes R's for me.@@OtterMotiveGarage
Could you please share the information on the affordable bleeding kits fo DB8?
If it can help the bleed port thread you'll need for the fitting is m4 x 0.7
I had it in a roadbike kit, probably for Campagnolo, not sure.
*Little update March 2024; I've been riding in a lot of shitty wintery mud so I figured I'd rebled them, the fluid was dark asf, the contamination probably came from the seals around the pistons so I opened the rear one, geez there was a lot of crap around the seals. I cleaned the best I could no visible scouring but the piston material is weird not really ceramic or typical nylon more like a hard polycarbonate... Pwetty weird stuff
I need one more fitting as only one came in my EZmtb kit. Where can you get a m4 X 0.7 fitting?
How adjust the lever? Short or long etc
Small wrench under the lever
I hope you can get back to me as soon as possible
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Put the Codes back on! The DB8's are not better. From my own experience of using both, I will be going back to the Code RSC's.
I'm running them back to back with the codes RSC there's not a significant difference the lewis and saints need way less lever effort than both sram offerings but I'd rather have what ppl call "modulation" I ride a lot of heavy grade (mountainous Canadian area) and I never got them to fade, not unlike the mt5's they replaced 💀
How are the db8 compared to codes?
I prefer my Code's