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From: Alex Luker
Category: Technical
Date: 02 Feb 2004
Time: 09:39:09
(Back to more technical matters) I’ve been having ongoing rear brake problems for the last few weeks on the Mk1. Seeing as a) I still drive my PI like a teenager and b) it’s far too cold and salty to wheel out the Yamaha R1, I’ve been keen to sort it out. First off I had a leaking wheel cylinder. Replacements are getting hard to find but I got one and changed it. The shoes had become contaminated with DOT4 so they were grabbing like mad. New shoes required, no problem quite straightforward. A few days later I experience that awful sudden long pedal feeling. However the brakes still worked and the fluid level wasn’t falling. Master cylinder seals? I think to myself. The necessary bits duly arrive. However I decide to start at the most recent crime scene and check that the new wheel cylinder is OK. (Also I’ve got new shoes to fit). Wheel cylinder OK, new shoes slotting in nicely when I notice that they’re slotting in well because THE BRAKE ADJUSTER HAS FALLEN OUT!!!!!! It had sheared where the female threaded boss joins the main body. The whole lot had vanished somewhere on the mean streets of Hertfordshire. Annoying because I’d changed them on both sides last October as the originals had seized. Luckily for me Doug Thompson had a spare and dropped it off – what a guy. Anyone else ever experienced this one? Rgds Alex PS consider this: I only know Doug (and his other half Jayne Sparkes) because I joined the Register and came along to Herts group meetings. If I hadn’t, I’d have been on the bus this morning with the great unwashed…
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