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Front brake caliper piston

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florence:
Sorry, I don't have it anymore.  It was a  1946 Scout 741 military bike which I rebuilt for a friend.  It was rather strange, having a foot operated clutch, hand gear change and throttle on the left handle bar.  I had it bored out to 850cc which was a massive job but worked well; we took about half an inch out of the liner walls. Steve at Piston Broke is a genius, he also did the rebore on my 500/4 back in 1995.  He said he was going to bore it slightly tighter than Honda recommend and that if I ran it in very carefully I would get more miles out of it.  He was right, fifteen years later and it still doesn't burn a drop of oil.

I don't have any photographs of the Indian, in fact, thinking about it, I don't have many photographs of my bikes past or present.  I'm not really a photography person.  I had to bribe my son to take the picture of my 500 in the avatar.  I did do a before and after photograph of the cb500 when I built it but I don't have a scanner so can't publish it. 

Bryanj:
For those interested I found the post again on the US site its:-

http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=13965.0

Since saying i havent put one under pressure i have used 2 of them on my Pug 405 estate calipers and they work perfik

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