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Squeaking front brake
Bryanj:
Good job i know you have a sense of humour Julie, should be over end of October you can berate me then!!
paul G:
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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 It probably is my fault Bryan, strange but true but I rarely use my brakes in anger. I just use the front brake, using only one finger on the lever, to come to a full stop. I use the back brake for slowing a bit when riding fast. I glaze the pads before they have even had chance to bed in. These days when the squeek gets really bad, Trig takes the pads out, scuffs them up and puts them back in and shes squeek free for a couple of weeks. I'm the same in the car, I have done almost 100,000 miles in my Freelander and I'm still on the original front pads and only the 2nd set of rear pads since I bought the car new.
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That's because they spend 90%of there time broken down and when running they don't go fast enough to use the brakes ;) ;D
Bryanj:
OK heres one for you, i had to change the front pads on my Mitsubishi L 200 at 80,000, plenty of material left but half of it fell off one pad. Now done 180,000 supose i should look at whats in there, although i did do discs and pads at 110,000 cos of a warped disc
Arfa:
I've got, or had (and will get back?) the dreaded squeak as well. After changing the pads then the disc it went away for a while, but returned. Because I had a fair amount of play on the pivot (pin was oval) I changed that, and so far no squeaks. Everything else in the front brake is new or refurbished. I find that cleaning the disc with brake and clutch cleaner on a rag is some temporary help. Back in the day, my first 400/4 never had this problem at all and I did a fair few miles on it. I guess that some material change has made the system more susceptible.
Skoti:
Not much help to you for 400 four fitment, but I fitted an EBC MD1062LS brake disc onto my CB750F1.
Cured the squeaking, improved the braking and now it also stops better in the wet.
Maybe the original Honda brake disc material is not so good?
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