To grease or not to grease - banjo bolts?

Why? You have no idea of his reasons for changing the lines - chances
are the calipers are just fine. Why make work?

Just simple things like turning a half-hour job into a four-hour one.
Fitting new lines and refilling them is a piece of piss; dismantling,
overhauling and reassembling the caliper/slave cylinder assemblies is
not.

Like your free choice to accept that you're a know-nothing fuckwit,
really.

 

I notice you've snipped my other comments

Why? If I were just changing the lines, I probably wouldn't even
unbolt the calipers from the forks.

What odd estimates of time you have - 2 hours to change the lines (1
hour tops, I reckon), but 35 minutes to put a seal kit in the calipers
(which is much more like 2 hours, probably more).

I conclude that a) you're very poor at expressing yourself or b) you
know **** all about the subject.

 

Cool. You might like to check the email addy in your profile on yahoo
groups.

 

I have to do it myself? That means remembering a very rarely-used
password, for a start.

Ohbuggre, off we go ...

 

Well he doesn't want to he doesn't have to. I just sometimes choose to
do 10 per cent extra work now if it saves a bit in future. Maybe it
won't.

Well it aint that hard and it's gonna have to be done in the future
anyway the question is now or later.

You are a mindless idiot. The difference between us is that I can
understand and empathise with your view. You haven't got the basic
capacity for logic to comprehend mine.

 

I have stripped and rebuilt calipers. (I would have thought most
bikers have).

I don't recall thinking at the time "Thank god I didn't do these 6
months ago in combination with another job..."

Chill out, it isn't that hard. Just because it seems so complex to you
that you assume people won't be able to do it doesn't mean we all feel
that way!

 

****, no. Why would I?

 

steve auvache says...

Or both in my case.

 

Ben Blaney wrote

It is something poor[1] people do Ben, you wouldn't understand.



[1] Or people with a mechanical hobby/career type background.

 

On here? More than that, I'd have thought. But for the biking populace
in general, could be less.

Oh, hang on - I think he means "bikers". You know... "*bikers*".

 

While you'r ecover in brake fluid I can't see a single reason *not* to
give the pistons a going over.

Especially if the hose is so fucked it need replacing.

I can get to my nearest bike shop and Halfords in 40 mins. 10 mins to
bung overalls on. 10 mins squaring away the garage. 20 mins in the
shower afterwards. Probably an 8 minute coffee break in the middle.
Maybe I'm a slow worker but I'm at near enough an hour and a half and
I haven't even changed the hose and bled the brakes.

35mins *extra*. No need to add in bleeding the brakes etc 'cos you're
gonna do it anyway! Whip out the dust and fluid seals, good clean
round and back in with the new ones. It's the f**king bleeding that
takes the time.

You can conclude yourself 'till you're blue in the face you're still a
pedantic ****. [1]



[1] Well done for the IOM though.

 

No, no. *You* **** off. [1]



[1] I bet you get bored with this before I do! ;-)

 

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'^'

 

I'm in a perpetual state of boredom at the moment, so nothing you can do
will make me any more bored than I am now.

 

*Exactly*.

Is it time for that thread again, already?

 

DannyBoy says...

If you're at a point where you need to change the seals, then it's an
almost 100% certainty that there will be pistons stuck in the caliper
bores because there's a build up of crap in the seal groove, which in
turn makes the piston seize in the caliper body. Why else would you need
to get them out and change the seals?

In my experience of rebuilding brakes - which extends to almost every
Kawasaki or Yamaha I've ever owned, and that's been a fair few - there's
always a couple or three pistons that won't budge, and that requires
blocking up the freed off pistons and pumping the stuck ones out, if
they'll budge at all. Sometimes you even have to rebleed the system when
one pops out when least needed.

Whatever, it's a pain in the arse and takes ages to do properly. Once
you have the pistons and seals out, getting all the accumulated shite
out of the seal grooves *properly* takes a fair amount of time too.

Your 35 minutes extra is bollocks. I don't work all that slowly, but
when I rebuilt the last set of ZZR1100 front brakes I set aside 4 hours
to strip the whole lot down, clean and rebuild everything with 4 new
pistons out of 8 and new seals all round, including bleeding them
through again. I just about did it in that time. That works out at half
an hour *each* piston.

 

Bear wrote

And who among us would argue with that?

 

Muck
(muck@dsl_TEETH_.pipex.com) says...

LOL!

"When Nerds Go Bad".

<Marks thread *ignore*>

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That's because either one of you is dancing to the other's tune - or
he's wriggling and squirming like a fucker, impaled on the harpoon of
being caught out spouting bollocks.

Your call.

 

Well if you don't include any of that then you're correct in your view
that doing two similar service jobs at the same time *is* a complete
waste of time.

LOL!!!!