what did you do with your fazer today ?

[Grahamm]

Lot more common than you think, pads being the wrong size.  Most are slightly too small which lead to them twisting in the body, after a while they start wearing away the caliper body and then jam, some just jam and the pad wears to a taper. 

Well one of them on one of the front calipers is substantially thinner than the other, I think because one was *very* stuck, so only one pad was actually doing the braking!

I hope you got all I mean all the crap out of the seal rebates. 

I do too, although, surprisingly, the old seals were actually in very good shape, given they've been in there since new  :look
The Pad Springs were a bit manky, but still working. I was thinking of getting new ones, but they were about £25 each which is absolutely ridiculous, so I put the old ones back.

There were some bits of crud on the outer edges of the pistons which, despite lots of brake cleaner and scraping with a plastic biro cap, wouldn't shift, but that's outside the bores anyway, so fortunately wouldn't affect anything.
Tomorrow I should be refitting them and using the vacuum bleeder kit to fill the system and then I might actually get to ride it again for a little trundle around the block to make sure everything works properly (after static testing first...!)