Oiled Brakes

Oiled brakes.

They work remarkably well.

But on investigation as to why I was not stopping as quickly as I would
like, I discover a speedo unit packed with litho grease.

Which is almost liquid.

Which has been centrifuged out forming a nice smooth protective covering all
over my left hand side disk.

So tonight I have been mostly taking the front wheel off, degreasing the
speedo hub, degreasing the disks including the little holes, removing the
film from all over the rest of the wheel and putting it all back together
again.

But its too late to get all of the torquing up done now.

I wonder if I'll remember to do it in the morning ?

Bike keys taped to the torque wrench should help to remind me.

 

and of course changing the pads for a new set of carbon lorraine ones as the
old ones are fecked.


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Robbo
1500GL 1988 Goldwing (Rebuild in process)
BMW K100 RS 1984
"Fairly Quick" status. Silver level
BotaFOF #19. E.O.S.M 2001/2002/2003.
B.O.S.M 2003.FURSWB#1 KotL..YTC449
PM#7
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I hope you made sure that there was adequate grease in the speedo drive.

I also hope you remembered to have a look at the brake pads. At the
very least I'd want to give them a good soak in degreaser and a scrub
with a wire brush. I'd also be tempted to run a blowtorch over them but
that's just me looking for any excuse.

 

For what a pair of pads costs these days, why not just bung some new
ones in?

 

Thanks for the comments folks.

Degreaser cost nothing - I had the wheel out and degreased the disks with a
rag soaked in parrafin. Then washed off with a rag soaked in meths - then
used detergent and water. It was 11:30 at night and I used what was around.

Stuff the pratting around with degreasing the old pads. I keep a couple of
pairs in hand - cos I usually notice how low the pads have become on
Saturday - just after the bike shop has shut for the weekend. I fitted the
new ones.

And yes - I did regrease the speedo gears - with LM grease. But just
enough. Not a cartload.

The result is impressive. Throwing me over the handlebars stuff. The
problem must have been there for a while and got worse gradually.

Oddly - very oddly - the level doesn't come back to the handle bars as much
as it did. It did when I first set off - I was a bit worried - but as the
new pads bedded in, everything got nice and tight.