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Thanks everyone for the help with my brake issues. I pulled the calipers off today (that's the lower assembly on the wheel right?) They came off real easy, and the old pads just fell right out, as far as I can tell they are the original pads, don't people know brake pads are consumables? This is the first time I've ever had a disk brake apart so my terminology may be a little off, just let me know what I'm saying incorrectly. I'm assuming that the wide hollow cylinder I'm seeing on the outter face of the inside of the caliper is the piston, there is a rubber boot around it's outer edge. Well, it's got some pretty heavy surface rust on its inside. I couldn't get them to move up or down at all, but I didn't try real hard, I'm not sure how they are supposed to move. What do I do now to recondition these brake calipers?
Next question, I pulled the master cylinder off (the assembly on the right handlebar with the lever and little fluid tank right?) One of the screws holding on the top is rusted out and stripped bad enough I couldn't get it off, I probably could by drilling it out, but then I noticed that the little level window was crazed and looking pretty bad, pushing on it with my finger made it give way and the fluid poured out. This looks to me like it's shot. Can I get new parts, or would just finding a new master cylinder make more sense. If so are there affordable aftermarket master cylinders, or should I be looking for one off another bike. I read a thread in the archive in which some people had good luck with the master cylinder from Honda CBR900s, but they also seemed to mention that anything would work.
The plan is to use paint stripped to get the old black paint off the calipers, then polish the ally until it glows, or paint them red like the race cars, something like that anyways. I've got a can of brake cleaner, and will have to order new pads as well. The old hoses I'll replace with stainless steel braid lines, the only brand I've found is Russel at about $45 for the front and another $45 for the rear. Any comments there? I have a digital camera and can take any pictures of the above parts if that would help anyone visiualize what I'm asking here. Any help would be appreciated, this is just an early step in the process of learning this bike inside and out in the course of a full tear down and rebuild, so you'll probably be seeing a lot of me in this forum
Thanks,
David
Next question, I pulled the master cylinder off (the assembly on the right handlebar with the lever and little fluid tank right?) One of the screws holding on the top is rusted out and stripped bad enough I couldn't get it off, I probably could by drilling it out, but then I noticed that the little level window was crazed and looking pretty bad, pushing on it with my finger made it give way and the fluid poured out. This looks to me like it's shot. Can I get new parts, or would just finding a new master cylinder make more sense. If so are there affordable aftermarket master cylinders, or should I be looking for one off another bike. I read a thread in the archive in which some people had good luck with the master cylinder from Honda CBR900s, but they also seemed to mention that anything would work.
The plan is to use paint stripped to get the old black paint off the calipers, then polish the ally until it glows, or paint them red like the race cars, something like that anyways. I've got a can of brake cleaner, and will have to order new pads as well. The old hoses I'll replace with stainless steel braid lines, the only brand I've found is Russel at about $45 for the front and another $45 for the rear. Any comments there? I have a digital camera and can take any pictures of the above parts if that would help anyone visiualize what I'm asking here. Any help would be appreciated, this is just an early step in the process of learning this bike inside and out in the course of a full tear down and rebuild, so you'll probably be seeing a lot of me in this forum
Thanks,
David
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