Brake Overhaul - picture heavy

OK,

As promised I'm uploading piccies of my brake overhall.

This is day one - showing (brief) pics of what it looks like before, finishing with the end-of-day-1 results...

Calipers before start



The spring is meant to be silver!



Pistons (one clean-ish)



Results after day one - lots of autosol, brake cleaner and hard work.






Getting there slowly!

Tomorrow brings sorting out the inside of the piston chamber, and fitting new seals etc.

[Dave20046]

Any instructions? Or explanation on what you did matey? I need to clean mine up but wouldn't mind knowing the best course of action. Do the pistons just come out with no messing? And go back in straight forward enough? Have you felt an improvement?

(I intend to do it with them still on the bike)

Will be coming along soon - writing down what I've done so far outside of t'internet... That way I won't lose it when my connection goes!

Quick responses:

> Any instructions?
> Or explanation on what you did matey?

Coming

> Do the pistons just come out with no messing?

All depends... mine didn't!! Had to get them most of the way out and then used thin bit of rubber (heatshrinking I think) to protect the pistons while I pulled the buggers out with some pliers.

> And go back in straight forward enough? Have you felt an improvement?

That is the million dollar question I hope to find out by this weekend! Put it this way, when I took them apart, the pads weren't sliding at all, and at least one was seized...

[yorkie_chris]

Suzuki kindly provide a hydraulic brake piston removing tool on the bike as standard.

[Richie]

Loving the glass of wine.... lol

clean pistons you have there...

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Suzuki kindly provide a hydraulic brake piston removing tool on the bike as standard.

Ill probably have to do this at some point too Not that they feel bad, quite the opposite.

[Dave20046]

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Suzuki kindly provide a hydraulic brake piston removing tool on the bike as standard.

That's fecking generous of them...unfortunately I didn't get the tool kit with my bike, previous owner lost it

Pump them out with the brake lever!

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Suzuki kindly provide a hydraulic brake piston removing tool on the bike as standard.

tee hee!

Originally Posted by breakz187

Pump them out with the brake lever!

In principal, yes... but be warned (as I found to my detriment) it's more than likely that one piston will be all to happy to pop out, and will do so before the other one can, meaning that as you're pumping on the brake there's suddenly a pop and a squirt and all the brake fluid that was behind the (now extracted) piston goes everywhere, and you have to resort to pliers to remove the other half-in, half-out piston