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Nurse Julie:

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--- Quote from: Oggie400F on June 04, 2019, 09:55:45 PM ---2. I am carrying out a complete restoration of the front brake and want to use dot5 silicone based fluid.  Is silicone grease OK to use on the calliper piston O ring for reassembly?
Any help or suggestions would be gratefully received.
Many Thanks

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Honda manual for 750 states "coat the piston with silicon grease and install it" also "Apply silicon grease to brake pad outer circumference and install "

"WARNING braking performance will decrease if silicon grease is applied to the pads/disc contact surfaces" is stated at the end of above section.

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In the 350, the 400 and the 550 Shop manuals it says use brake fluid to smear the bore of the piston and silicone grease to the sliding surfaces of the pads.

mike the bike:
You may need to upgrade the 15A fuse to a 20A.  With the headlamp on, indicating and braking, a fuse popped - twice.

Oggie400F:
Thanks everyone.
Great advice and comments as usual.
Will update once completed and back on the road.  :)

Trigger:
Going back on this.
I have had halogen 60/55w fitted to a few bikes with no problem but, I live out in the sticks with most roads at 60mph and not really any traffic lights. I have been running in a 750 with a H4 halogen 60/55w fitted  and had no problems in the first 200 miles as the average speed was around 40mph to 60mph but, yesterday I started having problems with the head light on sitting in traffic.
It seems that at tick over and under about 30mph the bike is not giving out enough charge to run with the head light on. Turn the lights off and it will pick straight back up again

Bryanj:
Thats typical of the Honda charging Trigger. 750 alternator puts out more watts than the smaller fours so copes better with H4.
As a callow youth my 500 ran an H4 and i had no problems BUT i did run it flat out everywhere and rarely hit 5th gear on the twisty roads!

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