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Message started by Duane on 05/14/09 at 23:19:05

Title: Brakes
Post by Duane on 05/14/09 at 23:19:05

I'm sure I'm just not looking in the right place. Is there some information of break replacements around here? How many miles would you guess on your first set? I have a 2003 with about 7500 miles and have noticed the front giving a sandy sound. Also info on front fork oil, my seem soft to me. Thank-you so much in advance.

Title: Re: Brakes
Post by Sir mick on 05/14/09 at 23:25:25

If you are talking about front brakes,change the pads every year they are cheap enough,and it takes about 45 minutes.
If you are low on fork oil you have a leak,change the seals.

Title: Re: Brakes
Post by verslagen1 on 05/14/09 at 23:42:57

Take a look at the pad, if you can't see it well, take off the caliper, 2 bolts and it slips off.

On the stock pad, there's a groove down the middle, if you can't see that it's time to replace. Or 1/8" of material? something like that.

Mileage depends on you.

Title: Re: Brakes
Post by Duane on 05/15/09 at 05:21:16

I don't think I'm low on fluid, they just seem soft to me. Thought maybe difftrent oil might make it stiffer.

Title: Re: Brakes
Post by bill67 on 05/15/09 at 05:51:31

Heavier fork oil will make the front end stiffer.

Title: Re: Brakes
Post by PTRider on 05/15/09 at 12:42:56

EBC FA106 seem to be the pads to get. If the sandy sound is the steel backing plates scraping on the rotor, you'll need a new rotor as well. The old pads are good down to 1mm thickness, according to the book.

Title: Re: Brakes
Post by Duane on 05/15/09 at 12:50:25

I sprayed it down with break cleaner and inspected it last night. No scars to the rotors but pads are shot. Time for a change. How hard is it to change the fork oil on the thumper? My last bike, a 1974 Honda 550F had the original pads and a lot more miles. I had to do the forks on it and they were easy.

Title: Re: Brakes
Post by verslagen1 on 05/15/09 at 13:18:44

Depends how creative you want to be.
Turn it over and pour it out in a pan or completely disassemble?
That is the question
Complete replacement of all the seals will run about $40

Title: Re: Brakes
Post by Digger on 06/24/09 at 21:01:56

6051454A41240 wrote:

.....My last bike, a 1974 Honda 550F had the original pads and a lot more miles....

Duane,

Consider yourself lucky. By the time I had 7500 miles on my bike (see signature), it needed its third set of front brake pads.

I've never seen a bike eat up brake pads like this one does!

Title: Re: Brakes
Post by motokid on 06/24/09 at 23:05:27

Incidentally enough, I've just changed mine - 5700 Km. They were down to less than 1 mm. My first clue was low brake oil and no leaks.

Took me about 15-20 minutes, first time with the instructions from this site. The hardest part - squeezing the cylinder back in. I used a brake paste for squealing, and it looks like it works, no more sounds from the brakes.

I attribute the low mileage to a lot of emergency breaking practice and lots of hard stops while riding, again for the practicing purposes - did a lots of 70km/h stops.