This is a 650 ? whatever. Yes, you do it twice. Since this is a dual piston system, clamp one piston with a C clamp and pump the other one out. Then push it back in a tiny bit and clamp it from moving (don't drive it back in, just keep it from moving) Now pump the other one out and pull the first one out with your hand. You'll have to add fluid all along to do this. Repeat on the other side. Like I said, we do this with air pressure. The danger of it is that the pistons come out like large caliber bullets. Big holes in the wallboard. Big hurt if you're in the way. Take your time and pump them out and do not grip with anything that can scar the pistons. When you get done with this operation, we'll deal with brake set-up. Good luck, have fun.
--- On Wed, 4/8/09, NytWing <[email protected]> wrote: From: NytWing <[email protected]> Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: Pulled it out of storage yesterday To: "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 8:01 AM Thanks Dennis. I'll give it a try. I have the Honda shop manual and I looked up removing the caliper. I had another question, since it has brakes on both sides of the tire, will I have to do this twice? On Apr 7, 10:49 pm, Dennis Hammerl <[email protected]> wrote: > Start with the most important thing. Remove the gas tank and cover the bike with a plastic drop cloth except for the area that you are working on. Brake fluid will destroy paint. > OK ? now on to the job. > Not much to it. Leave the caliper hydraulic line attached and remove the assembly from the fork.If it gives you some grief removing it from the fork, take a block of > wood and place against the caliper and strike with a hammer. That'll > drive the piston in and give it some clearance. Pump the brake till the piston pops out (big mess, do it over a pan) add fluid if you have to. At work we do it with air pressure but that's quite dangerous. You'll find some icky stuff hanging up the piston from moving. . Once the piston is out, clean everything and replace the seal. be careful, no scratches anywhere. Be sure to clean all the gunk from the seal groove. Replace the brake fluid and bleed it. > > --- On Tue, 4/7/09, NytWing <[email protected]> wrote: > From: NytWing <[email protected]> > Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: Pulled it out of storage yesterday > To: "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 11:03 AM > > I was leaning towards brakes.. What is involved with rebuilding the > calipers? > > On Apr 6, 10:30 pm, Dennis Hammerl <[email protected]> wrote:> Time to rebuild the caliper. > > > --- On Mon, 4/6/09, NytWing <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: NytWing <[email protected]> > > Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Pulled it out of storage yesterday > > To: "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" > > <[email protected]> > > > > > Date: Monday, April 6, 2009, 2:47 PM > > > Pulled my 84 650 out of strorage yesterday. (I don't what to hear > > from any one of you southerner's who get to ride all year 'round, > it > > snowed here in Iowa yesterday). Put the battery charger on it for a > > little while and it fired right over and ran great.. I wanted to move > > it to another place in the garage and when I took it off the center > > stand I was troubled to find the front wheel binding up. It was hard > > to push or pull. The wheel turned but it was difficult. It's been > > inside an insulated, attached garage all winter. I didn't have a > > whole lot of time to troubleshoot much yesterday. Could it be the > > brakes need to be adjusted or bled and that's what's causing it to > > bind up. I didn't have problem one with it last year. I put around > > 1200 miles on it. Anyone got any suggestions on where I should > > start to look?????- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
