Make it stop!!

Not just talking about the expense 😉 … after the rear brake issues I didn’t want to take any chances. This came up available so I jumped on it. The perfect opportunity to overhaul the front brake setup.

Out with the old and on with the new master cylinder and lever setup.

The calipers meanwhile had a full overhaul with new seals…take 1!

Great service form Brake Masters for the supply of the seals.

Splitting the halves…

The hex heads of the bolts weren’t very willing to budge…some drilling out required!!

Pretty clean still after 2.5k miles and 24 years…

Cleaner still…

After disassembly

All laid out…

The replacement seals were a bit baggy! I fitted them anyway to see but they weren’t right. An email to the supplier and he sent new ones out straight away, excellent service.

Replacement seals fitted no problems…

New fittings to replace the drilled out hexes. Turns out these use low profile hex heads, hard to find so I ordered Pro Bolt ones in stainless steel.

Turns out the replacement hex bolts couldn’t take the torque without the hex head rounding. Copy of the message sent to Pro Bolt regarding these bolts…

These were duly replaced with the Ti versions. Nevertheless, they still felt like the hex’s were giving around 21NM. I decided to stick with 21NM and mark the bolts to monitor. I came to the conclusion that 25nm is too much for these low profile hexes.

Ti bolts look great fitted…

That’s the braking system fully overhauled now and ready for action 🙂