Getting the right peg down (shiny, shiny)
If you already read Shiny bits shiny (pt. 1 of 100) this blog entry won't be full of many twists or turns. Or will there?
After the painfully long experience of polishing the left rearset, I finally got round to sorting out the right. Polishing wasn't my only job here though as this side also features the rear brake (as if you didn't know) but on the pluss side there isn't a heel plate, saving my some polishing at least.
I had managed to remember to pick up some Autosol this time as well so the polishing process would be allot easier that the usual wet and dry system I had used on the left.
I am away from my main computer and seem to have saved all of the most recent pictures on there. So save this one starting image on the right hand side I have nothing to show for the work I have done. I'll update this in September with all of the images.
As you can see on the right, I just stuck the lever in a vice (padded with an old shirt) to hold it in place then popped on some music with a decent beat and went at it. Removing the seams doesn't take long, especially with my dodgy "petrol station special" Dremel getting the more tricky corners. Then all I had to do was smooth everything down ready for polishing.
Once everything was smooth I got a blob of Autosol on a rag and worked it into a small area of the rear set hangar. I hadn't even rubbed the corrosion pitting off so I wasn't expecting allot so was rather surprised to be confronted with a patch of gleaming metal once I had buffed the now black Autosol paste off. Don't get me wrong, it still took a fair amount of effort but this was allot easier than wet and dry and gave me a good finish so I spent the next hour polishing the rest of the hangar, brake lever and associated spacers and bolt heads.
With this done I greased and reassembled the rearset, then moved my focus towards the brake system. The old brake line didn't look bad but it was getting on a bit and a new braided line wasn't going to hurt the performance or looks.
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Wezmoto are a new company to me and their prices for sleeved braided lines were less than half that of Goodrich or hell so I purchased one of their braided brake line.
To accompany this I also picked up a switched banjo bolt as the aftermarket rearsets had done away with the rear brake switch, something I was going to need for MOT's. The Wezmoto hose kit comes with all the seals and banjo bolts you need, so if you don't need a switched banjo then you would get everything you needed in the kit anyway.
Fitting was a simple case of removing the old and slapping the new hose in its place. As the new hose is a smaller diamerer the old clips and grommets are no good for holding the hose on the hugger so before I finish the bike I will need to find an alternative fixing, probably tie wraps knowing me.
Before charging the new line with hydraulic fluid I had one other toy to fit. An HRC brake reservoir kit. Or in other words a bit of coloured clear tube and some clips. Looks cool though and probably saves a whopping gram of weight not that, that is the reason I bought it.
The hose slips on where the old reservoir hose went and is held in place with a jubilee clip. The other end has a bung held in place by a spring clip. Simple!
The hose is a very tight fit so it is worth heating it up in a cup of hot water before hand. Just be careful not to get water in the brake system unless you enjoy replacing caliper and master cylinder piston seals.
With everything in place I attached my Motrax little bleeder onto the bleed nipple and slung a load of .4 hyrdraulic fluid into the hose and in doing so purging out the old fluid from the caliper.
These little bleeders are okay but I find the one way valve only really works when the barrel of the little bleeder is cracked open. This can then allow air into the valve making you forever chase bubble that were never in your brake system. An easy bleeder would be better but when have I ever done anything the easy way?
Job done. I'd love to show you what it looks like but you will have to wait and see.
After the painfully long experience of polishing the left rearset, I finally got round to sorting out the right. Polishing wasn't my only job here though as this side also features the rear brake (as if you didn't know) but on the pluss side there isn't a heel plate, saving my some polishing at least.
I had managed to remember to pick up some Autosol this time as well so the polishing process would be allot easier that the usual wet and dry system I had used on the left.
I am away from my main computer and seem to have saved all of the most recent pictures on there. So save this one starting image on the right hand side I have nothing to show for the work I have done. I'll update this in September with all of the images.
The starting place is the same as before: Strip down the foot rest hangar, clean it up and work at removing all of the scratches, dents and molding seams. The later are mainly on the brake lever itself and were removed with a file before working down the grades of wet and dry till I got a smooth finish.
As you can see on the right, I just stuck the lever in a vice (padded with an old shirt) to hold it in place then popped on some music with a decent beat and went at it. Removing the seams doesn't take long, especially with my dodgy "petrol station special" Dremel getting the more tricky corners. Then all I had to do was smooth everything down ready for polishing.
Once everything was smooth I got a blob of Autosol on a rag and worked it into a small area of the rear set hangar. I hadn't even rubbed the corrosion pitting off so I wasn't expecting allot so was rather surprised to be confronted with a patch of gleaming metal once I had buffed the now black Autosol paste off. Don't get me wrong, it still took a fair amount of effort but this was allot easier than wet and dry and gave me a good finish so I spent the next hour polishing the rest of the hangar, brake lever and associated spacers and bolt heads.
With this done I greased and reassembled the rearset, then moved my focus towards the brake system. The old brake line didn't look bad but it was getting on a bit and a new braided line wasn't going to hurt the performance or looks.
To accompany this I also picked up a switched banjo bolt as the aftermarket rearsets had done away with the rear brake switch, something I was going to need for MOT's. The Wezmoto hose kit comes with all the seals and banjo bolts you need, so if you don't need a switched banjo then you would get everything you needed in the kit anyway.
Fitting was a simple case of removing the old and slapping the new hose in its place. As the new hose is a smaller diamerer the old clips and grommets are no good for holding the hose on the hugger so before I finish the bike I will need to find an alternative fixing, probably tie wraps knowing me.
The hose slips on where the old reservoir hose went and is held in place with a jubilee clip. The other end has a bung held in place by a spring clip. Simple!
The hose is a very tight fit so it is worth heating it up in a cup of hot water before hand. Just be careful not to get water in the brake system unless you enjoy replacing caliper and master cylinder piston seals.
With everything in place I attached my Motrax little bleeder onto the bleed nipple and slung a load of .4 hyrdraulic fluid into the hose and in doing so purging out the old fluid from the caliper.
These little bleeders are okay but I find the one way valve only really works when the barrel of the little bleeder is cracked open. This can then allow air into the valve making you forever chase bubble that were never in your brake system. An easy bleeder would be better but when have I ever done anything the easy way?
Job done. I'd love to show you what it looks like but you will have to wait and see.
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