- The spring effect as I understand is - a combination of the pads almost touching the discs and the piston seals grabbing/dragging on the sides of the pistons. This results is the pistons were not allowing me to fully compress/pressurise the system, hence the excess lever play - or some thing like that.
- The pads still had enough meat on them 3-4mm, but apparently bandits unlike Fazers can't deal with worm pads that are still within thier wear limit.
This sounds a bit weird to me. How do you know this effect is actually taking place?
As far as I know Fazers really do not have an issue with part worn pads.
I suspect that you simply havn't bled the brakes successfully and need to try again.
On some machines air bubbles get stuck in the banjo bolt next to the master cylinder. Loosening off the banjo bolt as you pull in the lever then tightening up again before releasing the lever sorts this -if you see brake fluid 'sputter' out when you do this it's a sure sign there was air hiding there.
If you try it, remember to put plenty of rags around nearby paintwork and plastic.