Today i undertook a change of my front brake pad, I did not feel that this was going to be a hard or complicated job as I have the Yamaha shop manual.
I read the manual, made sure I had the proper tools, and the correct parts. This was not to be the case. The disassembly was uneventful as the three bolts were easily accessed being in the open.
Reassembly was the adventure had the caliper off slid the new pads in tried to put caliper back on and found out no matter what I did it would not go on. Took the casting that holds the caliper and pads off, and tried reassembly that way still no go, upon inspection found that the caliper is hitting the pads. I removed the pads and measured them and found out they were thicker than the factory stock pad, a little use of sand paper took care of that.
Put the pads in the casting installed the caliper on the casting mounted every thing on the fork leg and installed the 3 bolts and torqued them all down. completed a test ride to confirm I replaced all parts properly.
Total time 1 hour 12 minutes.
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- I started riding a scooter as the price of gas started going past 2.50 in May of 2005. Started as a commuter only but soon I realized I liked it and now do almost every thing on it.
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When you put new brake pads on, you have to push the calipers back out of the way. The calipers have moved in to grab the the disc even thoug there's less pad on them. It's hard to do, but you can push them with your hand.
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