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Hi folks,

I recently bought a spare set of calipers from the internet with a view to restoring them to give me a spare set should problems arise with the originals on the bike. The calipers are for a 2008 kawasaki Z750.

I stripped down the calipers then got to work cleaning the grime / rust from the caliper pistons.

pics 1, 3 & 4  show the before and after of the cleaning. I used grade 400 wet & dry paper with solvol autosol to remove the worst of the grime, then I buffed the pistons with the polishing wheel ......... the wheel is made of tough string,  so no metal content.

I was quite pleased with the results but as you can see there remains some pitting at the top of the piston.

Bearing in mind that these puppies cost

Just love the eyes and head light on the Jaguar Bike 

COLIN.

Hi Yoshi823,

I have only seen this mag on line as it seems unobtainable up north, (where I live anyway) tried in lots of large outlets and some small, all to no avail.
I thought that I might go for a years subscription to see what it's like but that was as hard to do as find it in the book stalls. So stuff it !!!

From what I've seen though, it might be a good read , Time will tell I guess.

I Know what you mean about MCN, everything they road test seems "fantastic". Very rare they cover any real world bikes and they have obviously finally noticed the LARGE ammount of bikers that are into classical bikes as they now have a page for classics.

Classic Motorcycle Mechanics is a good read though 

COLIN.

Thans for the kind remarks,

With regards to the rivets, I had to use 5x16 mm rivets, big buggers, which on a test piece broke my crap cheepo pop rivet gun, didn't help I guess as I was asking the gun to "pop" a size it was not made for , so I invested in a big bad lazy tongue pop riveter and this did the job with no problems.

With regards to chipping the paint, the way that you insert / pop the rivet, all the force seems to be taken on the actual rivet face , and the way you use a lazy tongue riveter as apposed to the little hand held riveters gave a much easier way to pop the rivet, (didn't need as much force ) so chipping was not a problem.

COLIN.

Cool Vid,

Loved the caption at the start LOL, How was it Shot ?

COLIN.

Hi to all,

as you all know to try and find a new rear sprocket with an original gaurd fitted for the 400/4 is pretty difficult, so I came about this " used Sprocket " which looked like it had plenty of life left in it, but still classed as usedand tatty, SO, out came the paint and I "tarted " up the sprocket and guard.

Not bad I thought, but still a niggling thought that no matter what I did it was always going to be a used Sprocket.......... see first set of pics.

So, plan 2, get a new after market spocket, an old guard, restore the old guard and then rivet the gaurd to the new sprocket, Looks o.k and now with a new sprocket  see second set of pics

COLIN.

Hi Dave,

Good Idea about the lacquer, it's funny how you can over look the obvious 

COLIN.

Dont' you now that pain was to follow on landing 

COLIN.