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#31 Post by D-Rider » Mon Apr 19, 2010 8:46 pm

Hi Phil - sounds good :smt004

First suspect for vibration under breaking is that the buttons between the discs and carriers are sticking and need cleaning.

It's an easy job to do but a bit time consuming.
Put a bolt through the hole in one of the buttons and tighten a nut up on to it.
Get a can of brake cleaner and spray it on the button between the disc and the carrier - and rotate the button by turning the bolt. This should clean that button.
Repeat for every button on the disc .... and then do the same for the buttons on the other disc.

Remember to remove the bolt when you are done.

Hopefully this will sort it out for you.
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#32 Post by HowardQ » Mon Apr 19, 2010 10:18 pm

Just as Andy says, it's the first thing to try and costs nothing other than time, most of us have had this problem at some time.
Good luck with it, think you'll get to like the bike even more.
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#33 Post by HisNibbs » Mon Apr 19, 2010 10:30 pm

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#34 Post by philgro64 » Tue Apr 20, 2010 7:21 am

D-Rider wrote:Hi Phil - sounds good :smt004

First suspect for vibration under breaking is that the buttons between the discs and carriers are sticking and need cleaning.

It's an easy job to do but a bit time consuming.
Put a bolt through the hole in one of the buttons and tighten a nut up on to it.
Get a can of brake cleaner and spray it on the button between the disc and the carrier - and rotate the button by turning the bolt. This should clean that button.
Repeat for every button on the disc .... and then do the same for the buttons on the other disc.

Remember to remove the bolt when you are done.

Hopefully this will sort it out for you.
Thanks D

Will give that a go to try and sort it out.

Cheers Phil

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