get a caliper rebuild kit to start with, then take them apart (carefully mind you) and clean the snot and junk out of them and put the pieces back together. On my 700s it didnt take long, and we went thru 1 and a half cans of break parts cleaner (they were nasty grungy after the bike sat for 7 ish years)
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:03 AM, NytWing <bglei...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I was leaning towards brakes.. What is involved with rebuilding the > calipers? > > On Apr 6, 10:30 pm, Dennis Hammerl <blues...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Time to rebuild the caliper. > > > > --- On Mon, 4/6/09, NytWing <bglei...@gmail.com> wrote: > > From: NytWing <bglei...@gmail.com> > > Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Pulled it out of storage yesterday > > To: "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" <nighthawk_lovers@googlegroups.com> > > Date: Monday, April 6, 2009, 2:47 PM > > > > Pulled my 84 650 out of strorage yesterday. (I don't what to hear > > from any one of you southerner's who get to ride all year 'round, it > > snowed here in Iowa yesterday). Put the battery charger on it for a > > little while and it fired right over and ran great.. I wanted to move > > it to another place in the garage and when I took it off the center > > stand I was troubled to find the front wheel binding up. It was hard > > to push or pull. The wheel turned but it was difficult. It's been > > inside an insulated, attached garage all winter. I didn't have a > > whole lot of time to troubleshoot much yesterday. Could it be the > > brakes need to be adjusted or bled and that's what's causing it to > > bind up. I didn't have problem one with it last year. I put around > > 1200 miles on it. Anyone got any suggestions on where I should > > start to look????? > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to nighthawk_lovers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nighthawk_lovers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
