Help... ordering new rear brakes for my bike

[kamal]

I'm getting ready to change both my front and rear pads for the first time. Looks like an easy job. I installed SpeedBleeders on my calipers which will make compressing the pistons a breeze (and flushing the fluid).

Have a good cleaning in the pistons by a brake cleaner with a tooth brush,rags and cotton buds before you push back the pistons in their holes for the new brake pads..

It will minimize the dust to go in the dust seals...

Thanks for that tip Michalis. I'll remember - next time.

Al.

 

[Mihalis fjr]

I'm getting ready to change both my front and rear pads for the first time. Looks like an easy job. I installed SpeedBleeders on my calipers which will make compressing the pistons a breeze (and flushing the fluid).

Have a good cleaning in the pistons by a brake cleaner with a tooth brush,rags and cotton buds before you push back the pistons in their holes for the new brake pads..

It will minimize the dust to go in the dust seals...

Thanks for that tip Michalis. I'll remember - next time.

Al.

Ι have learn this very hard Alan,when in my other bike the pistons get stuck from too much dust in the dust seals because i had never cleaned the pistons all these years and i had to cut my worn disks with a hacksaw to remove the front calipers Because there was no way to come back the pistons in their bore to free the brake pads from the disks...

 

[RaYzerman19]

Caution some brake cleaners will attack the seals or make them go hard. Best thing to do is put a thin piece of plywood a bit thinner than your two old pads and push the pistons out some more than they were, clean with toothbrush and brake fluid, then clean up with Simple Green or such, push pistons back in, new pads, etc. Actually at 90k, I would do a caliper rebuild with new seals, they're cheap and it's easy.

 

[Mihalis fjr]

I use this without any problem the last three years..:

https://www.belray.com/bel-ray-brake-contact-cleaner