30-05-13, 10:42 PM
Must say I've watched all the delboy vids while on nights, great guy with sound advice and as others have said really gave me the confidence to tackle jobs that I would have needed help with before. Sensible and well thought out hints and tips.
On topic. I have just done my rear brakes with new seals. I split the caliper and was much easier to get new seals in with it split. the mechanical (fat) seal went in easily on mine and the dust seal was a right pain, it's so thin it flexes instead of snapping into the groove. My best advice is make sure the grooves are as clean as possible as even a tiny amount of white furry deposits will make the seal sit too pround. Once my pistons were in I pushed them all the way home making sure to keep them square in the bore. Once I had pushed them right in then they were pretty tight which I figured was a good thing and seems to be fine now it's back on the bike. will easily lock the rear wheel which is obviously more than enough power for a rear brake. I used red rubber grease while putting the pistons in and smeared some around the piston before pushing it home. I reused the seal between the caliper halfs as it was fine. Whilst bleeding the caliper I had a problem but I just bled to the end of the line and then tightened it up again and then bled the caliper which sorted it. sorry for the tomb to read! Hope that helps...
Chris
On topic. I have just done my rear brakes with new seals. I split the caliper and was much easier to get new seals in with it split. the mechanical (fat) seal went in easily on mine and the dust seal was a right pain, it's so thin it flexes instead of snapping into the groove. My best advice is make sure the grooves are as clean as possible as even a tiny amount of white furry deposits will make the seal sit too pround. Once my pistons were in I pushed them all the way home making sure to keep them square in the bore. Once I had pushed them right in then they were pretty tight which I figured was a good thing and seems to be fine now it's back on the bike. will easily lock the rear wheel which is obviously more than enough power for a rear brake. I used red rubber grease while putting the pistons in and smeared some around the piston before pushing it home. I reused the seal between the caliper halfs as it was fine. Whilst bleeding the caliper I had a problem but I just bled to the end of the line and then tightened it up again and then bled the caliper which sorted it. sorry for the tomb to read! Hope that helps...
Chris
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It wouldn't be fun if it was easy, I just wish it wasn't this much fun.