Reading-ish spanner monkeys?

said...

It was refitting the tank filler cap, wanky anodised bolts (which I had
planned on replacing with stainless when I had some) after having it
resprayed. Those things have the tensile strength of a peperami, snapped
as I was tightening it up.

This is true.

 

Lozzo said...

Cheers mister. We shall arrange a time to sort it.

 

It is.

All I'd add is: clean up the pin that retains the pads - it can get
quite corroded, and the pads should slide along it as they wear, not
stick and twist [1]. I've been known to give the pins a light
emery-ing, and I always put a reasonable amount of copper grease on
them.

If they're very badly corroded, it's worth replacing them - they're
not too expensive.

[1] this space left for blackjack joke.

 

Yes, it was once I dropped the caliper off. I had no idea there was an
R clip behind there !

All done, pistons polished, all copper eased.

Just had the fairing off too to drop the oil. Fwck me, it's a bitch. It
went on a lot easier than it came off ..

Cheers

Paul.