Thanks Dennis. I'll give it a try. I have the Honda shop manual and I looked up removing the caliper. I had another question, since it has brakes on both sides of the tire, will I have to do this twice?
On Apr 7, 10:49 pm, Dennis Hammerl <blues...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Start with the most important thing. Remove the gas tank and cover the bike > with a plastic drop cloth except for the area that you are working on. Brake > fluid will destroy paint. > OK ? now on to the job. > Not much to it. Leave the caliper hydraulic line attached and remove the > assembly from the fork.If it gives you some grief removing it from the fork, > take a block of > wood and place against the caliper and strike with a hammer. That'll > drive the piston in and give it some clearance. Pump the brake till the > piston pops out (big mess, do it over a pan) add fluid if you have to. At > work we do it with air pressure but that's quite dangerous. You'll find some > icky stuff hanging up the piston from moving. . Once the piston is out, clean > everything and replace the seal. be careful, no scratches anywhere. Be sure > to clean all the gunk from the seal groove. Replace the brake fluid and bleed > it. > > --- On Tue, 4/7/09, NytWing <bglei...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: NytWing <bglei...@gmail.com> > Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: Pulled it out of storage yesterday > To: "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" <nighthawk_lovers@googlegroups.com> > Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 11:03 AM > > 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?????- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
