MOT fail / six-pot rant

Busa failed MOT due to front brake binding. That I don't mind. Dealer
wants 222 large for the seal kits. That is, er, interesting. Oh, plus
3-4 hours labour. What are they made of, platinum?

Insert rant about Tokico 6-pots here.

FFS.

 

<Krusty's recent mantra>

Clean the grooves, check the seals for damage, & if there isn't any,
grease them with rubber brake grease & reuse them.

</Krm>

I've done that with three bikes now (nine calipers) & they've all been
fine since.

If the seals aren't damaged, the only thing causing the binding is
corrosion in the grooves forcing the seals harder against the pistons
than they're supposed to do. That alone doesn't damage the seals ime &
it's perfectly ok to reuse them.

 

The thick end of a quarter of a million quid for caliper seals?

That's well through interesting and out the other side.

Rhodium, more like. Or moondust.

 

"We won't even attempt to do that, the old seals will have swollen."

If I wasn't in a rush I'd go elsewhere.

--
TD
2000 GSX1300RX (red and black)
Missing: SOB, Unreliable Italian exotica, cage
- What with the Internet, it doesn't take long to feel like one is an
- expert on any subject these days.

 

If you're going to pay them for the labour involved in stripping &
cleaning then a new seal kit is not that much more. And I guess from
their point of view they don't want to have done a half arsed job and
have you bringing it back to them in 2 months time.

 

Did you read his post? It's 222 quid more, which is over half the total
cost.

 

That's simply complete bollocks.

Shame.

 

The stripping and cleaning is needed whether you reuse the seals or not.

Maybe you could restrain posting to items you have a clue about?

 

I'm not convinced he did.

 

That's obviously accessible, these days. It's the slight depression,
in which a sensitive finger can feel the imprseed and reversed letters
"MGPO".

 

Pahnd!

 

"impressed", you ginger ****.

 

That would be one point one eight euros from you, Rogers Major.

 

imprsee'd is a Kia prototype, surely.

 

Oh, well batted, Prawn.

 

The robbing cunts. Tell them to order the seals from Hi-Level[1][2],
you'll need 2 packs of 27mm ones and 1 pack of 24mm ones -
unfortunately they come in packs of 5 pairs, but include the main brake
seal and the dust seal for each piston. Hi-Level also do complete
piston and seal kits individually, so you can replace all of them or
just one or two from each caliper.

They are dirt cheap to buy in, so don't take any shit with pricing and
feel free to shout me for advice if you feel they are trying it on. Any
mechanic worth his salt can strip and clean both calipers, fit all new
seals then bleed them through in a workshop environment in no more than
2 1/2 hours.

222 quid is Genuine Suzuki prices for the seals, and fitting them has
been quoted at way more than what the job will actually take. I know
how long it takes, we do it regularly at our place on ZXs of all sizes.

[1] Just as good as original ones IME.
[2] If they don't know who Hi-Level are then find another dealer
pronto. Hi-Level are the biggest supplier of hard parts to the bike
industry.

--
Lozzo
Versys 650 Tourer, CBR600F-W racebike in the making, TS250C, RD400F
(somewhere)
BMW E46 318iSE (it's a car, not one of those 2-wheeled pieces of shite
they churn out)

 

Surely brake seals are quite soft?

(well somebody had to...)

 

Aah, rubbery!

 

<checks xe.com>

**** me, sterling's cheap. We'll need to put together a shopping list
for our trip over next week.

 

Why did you take a bike in with binding brakes ?

That's an automatic MOT fail.

Paul.