I noticed a couple of months ago that the front brake pads were not wearing evenly on the dayto so at that time I removed the pads and pushed the pistons out (a bit) to clean off any crap so that they would all work optimally. But one of the pads had been used up almost to the metal, so despite putting them back in, I knew that one day soon I would be changing them again. So I ordered up the same brembro red pads and set about changing them. I now have a tool to hold the pistons back, I could concentrate on cleaning the pistons on one caliper whilst the other caliper was being held by the tool. On the left hand caliper there was a piston that was particularly sticky so they all got a good clean but I will have to keep an eye on the pad wear to make sure I don't miss something.
I had to remove some fluid from the master cylinder reservoir to accommodate the pistons right back in, so I managed to hoover up some crap with my syringe!
Now I need to bed them in.
The other thing I tried to do this weekend, was to clean out the accumulated crap in the fork seals. I don't know if you have seen these "tools" which are a thin piece of plastic with a hook shape on one end. The idea is to insert the plastic (hook end) inside the fork seal the hook shape then deploys and you move it around the seal to remove the crap. Well I watched a viedo on youtube and got to it, although in hindsight I think the mistake I made was not relieving the weight off of the front end. Maybe I'll try again when I get another freebie. Anyway you remove the dust cover and then push the plastic tool into the seal, well this point didn't work too well, as the plastic was not rigid enough and it bent and folded and once folded it could no longer perform it's task.I did manage to get it in at one point and removed some dirt however the side that is badly leaking, didn't work, so it looks like I will have to change the seals. Am seriously considering buying some Triumph branded seals as these Athena Pyramid ones don't seem to last long. I think the ones I have ordered this time are from Tecnium (piston makers from Japan) so we'll see how we do this time around! For info the last time was Pyramid seals which I only change one side (right side), and bingo this time it's the left side that is leaking so. The RHS seal has lasted almost 4 years, so I s'pose that is not that bad!
Anyway disappointed with the tool, now not so disappointed with after market seals! Both are ordered so will be changed together I will update the blog when I have done the job.
