'Ere 'ere is the EAR Megathread

I went out to give my front calipers a clean and guess what... yes the seals were griping the pistons and they both need a proper clean out, regrease and new seals on the right side. The left side was ok and just needed a clean up before reassemble. The right one is being a pig and wont let go of its pin. I'll work on it for a day or two but I've ordered a new one and new seals which should be here by Wednesday. Fingers crossed that the rebuild goes as well as the first one.

Good god I'm bored. I've finally got round to doing some of my work (key skills...) and what a load of rubbish it is. I can see it being of use to people who don't retain knowledge, or aren't as interested etc.. but it's driving me mad. Utter ******** it is. It feels like I'm working on a qualification to be a normal, useful employee. Gah.

My bike has kept my quite busy today. As I said yesterday today was a day of TLC for my chain, this is what it looked like before I started.



Looks horrid doesn't in. So with my pot of paraffin, a Tesco value toothbrush and a rag I set about cleaning it up. This is what it looked like after.



To me that looks 10 times better then what it was. I also give the sprocket a quick scrub but that needs wire wool or something. While I was in a cleaning mood I also did the sprocket carrier and that come up really well.



Then a heavy dose of chain lube and the chain looks almost like how it is meant to look.



After that I cleaned off the inch think grease that caked the rims, give the bike a wash, coated it in Scotoiler FS365 and then put the bullet camera back on the front.

There's a few more jobs to be done on it but I'll let the bloke who services my bike do them.

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From grim to bling. I'm going to return to the garage this evening

No amount of cleaning will change it into a curvy Scott, so I'd give up trying

Originally Posted by Sean_C

No amount of cleaning will change it into a curvy Scott, so I'd give up trying

Thank god for that.

Im taking Jeffs bike for its MOT on Tuesday. Assuming i dont trash it en route, do you know if it will fail with the baffle out? I was gonna put it under the seat so they can put it back in if necessary!

put it in before you go- why give them anything to be picky about?

Cos i havent got anything to attach it with so i was gonna leave it for them to sort God, that sounds lame!!

is it a bolt in baffle then?