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Duane Senior Member Offline Creatively Maladjusted Posts: 335 Terra Plane Gender:	Brakes 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.
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mick Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Hell-bound Posts: 7323 Dayton Oregon Gender:	Re: Brakes Reply #1 - 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.
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28884 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Brakes Reply #2 - 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.
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Duane Senior Member Offline Creatively Maladjusted Posts: 335 Terra Plane Gender:	Re: Brakes Reply #3 - 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.
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bill67 Serious Thumper Offline old tired Posts: 8517 genoa city wisconsin Gender:	Re: Brakes Reply #4 - 05/15/09 at 05:51:31 Heavier fork oil will make the front end stiffer.
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PTRider Senior Member Offline Posts: 397	Re: Brakes Reply #5 - 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.
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Duane Senior Member Offline Creatively Maladjusted Posts: 335 Terra Plane Gender:	Re: Brakes Reply #6 - 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.
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28884 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Brakes Reply #7 - 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
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Digger Serious Thumper 2005 No Login Offline Ya gotta be tough to ride singles! Posts: 1604 Colorado Springs, CO Gender:	Re: Brakes Reply #8 - 06/24/09 at 21:01:56 Duane wrote on 05/15/09 at 12:50:25: .....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!
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Re: Brakes
Reply #9 - 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.

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