Brake Question

Are brake lever / master cylinder assemblies ( the bit on the handle bar )
matched set with the caliper , i.e. can I put a Kawasaki lever assembly on a
Honda Caliper ? if the threads and bolts all fit, or is there a dark secret
of compatibility


Regards
Michael Chester
Cootamundra

 

I met your wife. you were away...


Had a pie at the shop next door

smack

 

In aus.motorcycles on Mon, 09 Feb 2004 07:01:09 GMT

Sometimes the slot the lever goes in is wider or narrower than the lever
you have. Wider isn't all that much of a problem except it rattles.

Sometimes the ends of the levers are different lengths or shapes, and
won't engage whatever they are supposed to engage at the right angle, or
push soemthing in far enough.

all you can do is suck it and see... if you have a lever to match
against, then eyeball the differences and peer into the master cylinder
slot to see what it has to engage.

Zebee

 

Piston diameter (and possibly stroke).

-----sharks

 

Yes she said you were in for 15 minutes !!!

sorry I missed you, caps and jumper should be ready this week.

Michael Chester

 

Naah; all the Jap stuff is virtually identical 5/8th inch diameter piston.
You'd be pretty unlucky to find one that doesn't work.
Clem
(actually; all the non-jap stuff probably is too!)

 

ta mate

 

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Wouldn't have done him any good, he looks like a Yeti at the moment...


Kevin Gleeson
Imagine It
West Hobart
Tasmania Australia
www.imagine-it.com.au

 

do not! I look like a Tasmanian. I R gonna change my name to Ian Bread

 

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Kevin Gleeson
Imagine It
West Hobart
Tasmania Australia
www.imagine-it.com.au

 

Make sure the line-diameter is the same and both units were set out to
service the same number of discs (i.e. don't use a master cyl. designed for
a single disc front end on a twin-disc front end, the other way around
should be fine).
As a general rule, it's usually safer to use a bigger (volume) master-cyl
than the original one.
cheers
pete

 

Goddamn hippie yeti yuppie

Conehead

 

I was going to say as long as they have the same power, you don't want to
have a cylinder that at fill squirt only engages the caliper 1/2 on. being
hydraulic big to small its unlikely tho..

www.mad-biker.com who knows nuffin about nuffin

 

Thanks all, I'll give it a go, I've got a YZ125 1988 front end on the old
IT490, so i'm looking to make the feel and power a bit different.

 

On 9/2/04 7:22 PM, in article
CrHVb.48724$, "Chesterfield"
<> decided to come out from under the bed and
slurred:

Jeez, he was still boasting when he got to my place!

Hammo

 

Ooooohhhhhhh, I bet it isn't........

Hammo

 

Hammo wins a beer! 9/16 and 11/16, single and twin disc.

 

Bloody friggin' American non-jap stuff!!
I was talking about European non-Jap stuff!
Clem