strangest thing to come out of your brake line was a ...?

[nhlkats]

OK. I had a spider and its web come out when i bled my brake. What is the strangest thing youve had come out of your brake line? fuel line? air intake? exhaust pipe?

:lurk

[RedBeemer]

Piston out the exhaust on a 350 Kawasaki Big Horn while racing on the beach in Washington and a valve out the head on a GMC diesel that didn't want to take me to work that day and anything and everything out of everywhere during the H-D days(that was 35+ years ago)

[GeneT]

Ants, yes dead brown ants in the cylinder on top of the piston, go figure.

:dance

[nhlkats]

and anything and everything out of everywhere during the H-D days
:laugh

[manicmechanic]

From various "barn bikes", we've seen dog food, corn, mattress stuffing, and the like come out of the airbox and mufflers. On some of the bikes we try to "just get going" we are surprised that brake fluid comes out of the bleed port. Mostly it's pretty chunkified.

[The_Veg]

I found an odd little conical bit of metal with a slot in one side rattling around in The BatBike's exhaust collector a few months ago. No clue what it is or where it came from. When I was doing a total refurb on an old K100 a few years ago I found a bright blue O-ring about the size of the white "$2000" O-ring infamous to airheads floating around inside the fuel tank along with a few dead leaves and other crud, and I drained about half a pint of some pale yellow oily stuff (looked like cloudy cooking oil) from that tank as well. I've seen fire-ant nests in the brake drums of rusty old cars too.

[crazydrummerdude]

I don't remember where, but I know I pulled a mouse out of my airhead.

[41077]

Flames from my exhaust, that did'nt stop until I covered the pipe with my boot –thank God for thick soles.
And no my bike is not pink, thanks for asking.

[Crow18]

I knew a guy in college who had one of the smaller Ninjas, like a 250 or a 400 or something. He rode it in second gear on all the pedestrian footpaths all around campus, at all hours.

What does this have to do with removing odd things from one's bike?

Two words: superglue, ignition.

[PUDGYPAINTGUY]

I bought a 1980 XS850 and while doing a pre-flight check to bring it back from FL, I bled the brakes as they kind of felt like blocks of wood, and it was a brown sludge that came out of the lines reluctantly...lol. We estimated that the brake fluid was the original (I bought it from the original owner) 26 year old DOT3...a tad bit moiturized I would say...lol.