29-07-14, 11:14 AM
Lew,
Your dealer may be saying that they replaced the pads in situ as an excuse. Seems strange to me that those mounting screws loosened.
Oh no need to release the bleed screw to push the piston back, if you do that it'll just make bleeding the brakes more difficult, just push em back maybe keeping an eye on the master cylinder reservoir.
I'm not gonna say any more about brake servicing. I'll go with what The Male Whale says whom kens much mare than I aboot bike servicing.
All I'd say Lew is the basic year to year servicing, the stuff that franchised dealers charge you a fortune for and often don't do it right, is pretty straight forward. I bought a clymer manual (as at the time Haynes were using cheap newsprint type paper for their manuals!). I get the fork oil changed every second year at my friendly non-franchised dealer, get my tyres there and MOT etc.
I might get more ambitious now I have a garage. Just need to decide which sort of bike lift to get. Hmmm
Your dealer may be saying that they replaced the pads in situ as an excuse. Seems strange to me that those mounting screws loosened.
Oh no need to release the bleed screw to push the piston back, if you do that it'll just make bleeding the brakes more difficult, just push em back maybe keeping an eye on the master cylinder reservoir.
I'm not gonna say any more about brake servicing. I'll go with what The Male Whale says whom kens much mare than I aboot bike servicing.
All I'd say Lew is the basic year to year servicing, the stuff that franchised dealers charge you a fortune for and often don't do it right, is pretty straight forward. I bought a clymer manual (as at the time Haynes were using cheap newsprint type paper for their manuals!). I get the fork oil changed every second year at my friendly non-franchised dealer, get my tyres there and MOT etc.
I might get more ambitious now I have a garage. Just need to decide which sort of bike lift to get. Hmmm