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Author Topic: R65 (860) Brakes - 1150 upgrade?  (Read 1750 times)

Offline Tony Smith

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Re: R65 (860) Brakes - 1150 upgrade?
« Reply #15 on: February 28, 2023, 02:10:37 AM »
Dogshome.

I am not proceeding with the 4-spot installation. One of the calipers is perfect, the other has a stuck piston.

Not interested in proceeding at present, I will buy some seals and remove the stuck piston and have a look at a later date.
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Offline dogshome

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Re: R65 (860) Brakes - 1150 upgrade?
« Reply #16 on: February 28, 2023, 12:50:01 PM »
My progress is very slow. Mainly due to ensuring I can get a reasonably flat, level and correct mounting. I've got 1 of 4 mountings satisfactorily rebated and a pile of chippings. The other 3 are going to be hacksawed roughly to shape and use my slightly dodgy end mill setup for final levelling.

All 4 pots work in my (much newer and nicer  :D ) calipers. However it appears that it is not recommended to split them in the repair kits as they allegedly leak afterwards. Hence no small O ring inclusion. I get that as half the joining bolts don't have a full circle of aluminium meat around them. So there may be some lapping of the inner faces on a sheet of glass just to see how they lay. I had to split them to have a chance of finding a flat face to bolt down and work on.

Sump upgrade also stalled as she had £25.00 of oil in her not more than 1,000 miles ago and it's February in the UK.  :vrolijk_1:  :drowning:

I could do with a rolling restoration bike......
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Offline dogshome

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Re: R65 (860) Brakes - 1150 upgrade?
« Reply #17 on: May 15, 2023, 04:24:00 PM »
My shoulder problem has delayed all sorts of things. Updates coming eventually....
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