Juicy Three - Lever Seal Kit

[New Landy new life]

I have a 2011 Merida with Jucy Three brakes - the lever is leaking and I need to buy a seal kit.

 

I see quite a few different types of Lever kits on E-Bay and was wondering if there are different types made under the same name or can I just get any kit listed under Juicy Three?

 

If anyone recognizes the lever in attached picture or has purchased a kit like this before, would appretiate some advice

 

I know the Avids are crap brakes, but this is my sons bike now and I don't want to spend on new brakes for now, just want to fix the one leaking lever and eventually upgrade the bike when he is older.

 

I have replaced the seals in the calipers before and bled the system which worked fine for a few years, but now one lever is leaking.

[Skinnyone]

Sjoe, I haven't done a lever rebuild on those brakes in years! Those Juicy 3's were bullet proof...the 7's not so much...I wouldn't have guessed you would still be able to get rebuild kits for those any longer as they are so old - no disrespect but they are at least 8 years old...? 

 

Found this http://www.jensonusa.com/Avid-Juicy-3-Lever-Internals-Kit - that's the kit you would need...and those levers are easy to rebuild - not much to them...

[New Landy new life]

Jensonusa = 10$ price for kit and 33$ postage ! = R 620

 

E-Bay from the UK landed at my door for about R 225

[porqui]

Have two issues here.

 

You say "I know the Avids are crap brakes, but this is my sons bike"

 

1. Statement from an ignoramus. (1st part)

 

2. Since when do you allow cra....y brakes on your sons bike ????

[New Landy new life]

When The bike was mine I found the brakes were not brilliant for my weight and bleeding was a real bugger and brake fade was scary. My son took over last year and he was happy with the stopping power. When I asked some years back on bleeding help, others told me how crappy these brakes were. So I am going to fix the leak for now and buy him a better bike when he finishes growing. My Shimano brakes are far better and bleeding a doddle

 

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[Skinnyone]

I have always found Avids a lot easier to bleed...

 

You might find that if you were on the wrong end of 90kg, running 160mm rotors then these brakes probably weren't good for you, but your son finds them fine because there is less inertia to stop.

 

Most brakes will be more effective if you simply fit bigger rotors...I am only around 75kg and would go no smaller than a 180 rotor on the front...

[New Landy new life]

For me the Avids never bled easily, I had to remove caliper from bike and the lever, especially the rear, and place near vertical from each other to remove air..

The syringe system and procedure is complicated and I had to do it different than the official way shown on YouTube, follow only the Sram manual to get it right, but still very difficult.  Shimano I bled both in quarter of the time and less mess an no corrosive fluid.

 

I weigh 69 kg and the brakes worked ok in the beginning but just got worse over time with brake fade when hot. Rotors were 140/160 I think on the 26".

 

Anyway, I will give it a go with relatively cheap seals from E-bay so my Son can at least use the bike a couple more years for now