Front brakes, brake pads.

Originally Posted by Dave20046

Possibly wrongly but I did the whole ring, it just made sense to me as red rubber grease preserves rubber so you may aswell coat the whole thing. I also gave other rubbers around the bike a coating in the hope it'd stop them from cracking & perishing (tyres took a fair bit of grease )

Originally Posted by Dave20046

Me too however I do worry that maybe my 'fresh' brake fluid might get contaminated as it's not really sealed. It's in a big screw top plastic tub, I notice most stuff you see in shops is in a tin.

lol @ badger, awesome use of pictures

I often wonder, why don't brake fluid manufactures use molecular seives or similar water-absorbing materials suspended in their product, to help promote the stability of the brake fluid? I use molecular seives all the time in the lab to help preserve "dry" or "anhydrous" solvents.

There isnt much you can do really to prevent water absorption, other than opening and doing everything in a dry, argon-filled glove box! Best thing to do is to keep the brake fluid some place dark, dry and at room temp, so when you open it water dosnt condense.

Be intersting to analyse some samples of brake fluid, and monitor the rate of degredation by water

mmm chemistry

Originally Posted by Alpinestarhero

Some words and talking through holes in Beards and wearing of White Coats and Sandals

Becaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaause .







They want it to absorb water and go off so you will buy another bottle and thus , increase profits , they don`t make it just to make us feel good when we stop , they also make it to make them feel good when we don`t stop and have to buy another bottle .

I can hear the "clackitty" of keys from here , I sense a sensible answer is on the Horizon

Wanted to say thanks

With the help of the neighbour, replaced the brake fluid today, so the the front brakes are sweet and good to go.

Just the back brake to to do now, should be easier now I have some experince. All I can say it is no where near as hard as most people think, with good advice of the org and the massive I have managed to do it.

Well I am slowly learning

Oh I forgot to ask, I'm gonna grease the brake leaver and the piston is LM grease ok or should I get something else for that?

[Dave20046]

Yeah it'll do, if you you have rubber grease i'd pop a bit round the rubber boot on the mastercylinder first but I wouldn't worry if you don't.

The SV has a back brake who would have thought??