Well, that's that done

Jul 14, 2005 7 Replies

It was a bit of a battle but the car is back together now.



All seems to be working from my short test drive - I probably shouldn't have but for my own piece of mind I gave it 3 40mph emergency stops - enough to get the ABS to kick in.



Pulled up straight and quickly.



I'll do the fronts on when I'm on holiday in August - there's a bit of meat left on them yet.



Also did the cheapskate thing of swapping fronts that are only about 1mm from the wear markers for the almost pristine rears..... can't afford a pair of car tyres after spending a few hundred on tyres and servicing the bike before we go to France.


How many plasters did you need?

Heh, not that bad, but I went through half a tub of Swarfega cleaning myself up afterwards. Had brake dust *everywhere*.

Next time, it'll go to a garage, but I doubt I'll ever need to do the rear brakes in the time I own it.

As usual, the Haynes BoL was useless.

'Replace caliper and tighten retaining bolts to xxNm torque'.

Not quite as easy as that.

How many grunts is a Nm?

About 2 short of "*Twang*, F^7king C*ut".

Heh. Seems like I got the 'gruntage' just about right, then.

i've tried doing brake pads....... once........ ended in a snapped bolt in the rear caliper and a trip to my mate stuart :) sorted and carl gibbs has never mentioned any probs hehe

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