Mate your fkin channel is an NC750X bible!! Over the last year or two every time I needed something and I searched UA-cam it was always a video made by you popping up! About pretty much anything I searched for. 🤣🤣 I just want you to know that I really appreciate all the work you've done. You've always explained everything calmly with nice pro tips thrown here and there. It's great stuff honestly.
Excellent clip, good tip with pushing the pistons back after cleaning. You have a soothing, everything will be ok way of talking. Keep up the good work, from one of your not so secret admirers.
I usually disasemble whole support. And polish pistons after that by soft piece of material. Minus of this idea - you must change brake fluid. But once per two years it is not a problem. Also i use grease. It protect pistons from rust. They move very smooth by only finger. Thanks for video!
Loosen every bolt/pin you are going to remove before you take the caliper off the fork leg, it makes it a lot easier than holding in your hand and trying to loosen seized pins/bolts
I used old motor oil to totally degrease my caliper yesterday, then i wiped it dry with cloth. Much cheaper and more effective than brake cleaner in my opinion
Ha! Time passed, the caliper got painted. I confess that during the pad replacement vid I was so focused on filming I missed cleaning the caliper. This is why you should never follow advice you view on UA-cam. It’s full of us idiots! 🤪
Mike K - the fluid was only exposed for the time it took me to pump the pistons out. Then I had the cap sitting on top. I’d replace fluid every 24,000km.
Motorcycle Refurbishment - yep. Yours might need that but mine certainly didn’t. It’s a good point for those riding in harsh conditions, to look out for.
Video Outtakes - wow. That’s bad luck. I’ve ridden since 1969, had 35 bikes, I have always maintained myself, done over 140,000km on some of them, and never had a problem with brake seals. Where do you live?
@@AfricaTwin-Stuff ...London.....every brake caliper I dismantled had a problem with the brake piston seals...unfortunately you don't discover this until you completely dismantle the caliper..as the brakes are the main thing necessary..to stop the bike...worth spend a few dollars on new brake piston seals...and on a new bike only takes 30 minutes to change them
Perhaps you damaged the seals taking them apart? If they're not leaking and they move in and out what's the problem? I'm aware the grove that holds the seal can corrode and pustles can force the seal harder against the piston making it too stiff, need to scrape the bottom of the grove out and refit old seal, they last year's and years. No one changes car caller seals
Mate your fkin channel is an NC750X bible!!
Over the last year or two every time I needed something and I searched UA-cam it was always a video made by you popping up! About pretty much anything I searched for. 🤣🤣
I just want you to know that I really appreciate all the work you've done. You've always explained everything calmly with nice pro tips thrown here and there. It's great stuff honestly.
Thanks! These tutorials are very helpful. I am about to service mine right now! Greetings from a NC700x owner from California!
Thanks mate
Excellent clip, good tip with pushing the pistons back after cleaning. You have a soothing, everything will be ok way of talking. Keep up the good work, from one of your not so secret admirers.
Thanks mate. Very kind of you
I usually disasemble whole support. And polish pistons after that by soft piece of material. Minus of this idea - you must change brake fluid. But once per two years it is not a problem. Also i use grease. It protect pistons from rust. They move very smooth by only finger.
Thanks for video!
Another good video. I can tell from the condition of the fasteners what your climate is like you lucky thing. Here in the UK it's not as good
Steven Brown - yes. Very lucky. I’d be cleaning them way more often if I had to live in the UK.
Loosen every bolt/pin you are going to remove before you take the caliper off the fork leg, it makes it a lot easier than holding in your hand and trying to loosen seized pins/bolts
Jeff Andrews - excellent tip.
Thanks for the video. You make this jobs look so easy.
Another easy and usefull job! Thanks for sharing!
What happens if we remove the pistons a little bit without opening the upper brake center cover?
I used old motor oil to totally degrease my caliper yesterday, then i wiped it dry with cloth. Much cheaper and more effective than brake cleaner in my opinion
Old motor oil to degrease...I had to read it a second time, but yes, there it is. Lemme guess: you dry with water too?
Great easy video
Thank you
Great videos
ok talk about confused ,, so were has the scratched caliper gone from the first video ? and its nice to see you clean the pistons this time
Ha! Time passed, the caliper got painted.
I confess that during the pad replacement vid I was so focused on filming I missed cleaning the caliper.
This is why you should never follow advice you view on UA-cam. It’s full of us idiots! 🤪
Another trick is to use 2 spanners by interlinking them and turn to push back the pads
Good tip
Great instructional video. But is it not a good idea to have your brake fluid exposed to air for so long? How often should one replace the fluid?
Mike K - the fluid was only exposed for the time it took me to pump the pistons out. Then I had the cap sitting on top.
I’d replace fluid every 24,000km.
@@AfricaTwin-Stuff Thank you.
Good job, thank You!
Nice 1... I should do that... whether I will or not, remains to be seen.
CaptainCranky - you know you want to. You know that it’s important to keep your piston clean!
@@AfricaTwin-Stuff The rest of the innuendo wasn't lost on me either ;-)
Too easy 👍
John Goffinett - true. But so often neglected - even by me.
@@AfricaTwin-Stuff and I mean too easy as in exactly why I just got the same bike 😁👍
Didn’t think to grease the caliper pin?
Well picked up.
Hmm, didn't clean the pin too?
Jeff Keniston - the pin has very thin smear of grease. That’s why it looks dirty. 😍
@@AfricaTwin-Stuff LOL touche.
First of all I would blow away the dust.
Best to use brake cleaner, the last thing you want is brake dust airborne.
Oho ur finger bleeding 😥
Faidul Islam sheikh - wow! That was good spotting. It was from a previous job in the shed, not the brake clean job 🥰
After 50,000 kms.....I would have replaced the piston seals....immediately....every 2 years
Motorcycle Refurbishment - yep. Yours might need that but mine certainly didn’t. It’s a good point for those riding in harsh conditions, to look out for.
@@AfricaTwin-Stuff ...every one of the motorcycle brake calipers I've taken apart over the last 2 years...the dozen...have needed new piston seals....
Video Outtakes - wow. That’s bad luck. I’ve ridden since 1969, had 35 bikes, I have always maintained myself, done over 140,000km on some of them, and never had a problem with brake seals.
Where do you live?
@@AfricaTwin-Stuff ...London.....every brake caliper I dismantled had a problem with the brake piston seals...unfortunately you don't discover this until you completely dismantle the caliper..as the brakes are the main thing necessary..to stop the bike...worth spend a few dollars on new brake piston seals...and on a new bike only takes 30 minutes to change them
Perhaps you damaged the seals taking them apart? If they're not leaking and they move in and out what's the problem? I'm aware the grove that holds the seal can corrode and pustles can force the seal harder against the piston making it too stiff, need to scrape the bottom of the grove out and refit old seal, they last year's and years. No one changes car caller seals