Received my Hong Kong Pazzo rip-offs today, & very nice they look too!
Anything I need to be aware of when I swap them over - bits that might fall out, get lost etc? Not had to do this since the '70's - not up to speed with these new-fangled hydraulic things.
(BTW is there such a word as old-fangled?)
Fitting clutch & brake levers
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Fitting clutch & brake levers
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be aware of the grub screw....
you are going to need a tiny allen key to undo it - and hope that it has not been threadlocked like mine had....
(That is on the clutch side only btw....)
also, you may have to dremel off the base off the new lever - where the pivot point is - when you have the old one off, compare them - i think you will find that the original has a raised lip around the upper surface only, while the copy has a lip on upper and lower surfaces. If you don't dremel it off the lever is too snug and the clutch will not return correctly... ask me how i know!
you are going to need a tiny allen key to undo it - and hope that it has not been threadlocked like mine had....
(That is on the clutch side only btw....)
also, you may have to dremel off the base off the new lever - where the pivot point is - when you have the old one off, compare them - i think you will find that the original has a raised lip around the upper surface only, while the copy has a lip on upper and lower surfaces. If you don't dremel it off the lever is too snug and the clutch will not return correctly... ask me how i know!
Let's face it, you wouldn't go to a nurse to get good advice on a problem with a Falco - you'd choose an Engineer or a mechanic...
they ones you have are exactly the same as mine i think the setup is a little different on the fut fut compared to the falco, basically undo the nut on the pivot pin, unscrew the pin, pull out pin, slide out lever and fit new lever then just put it back together the clutch is a little different in that you also have a plunger which is seated in the lever which then pokes into your master cylinder. But there's nothing that needs to be trimmed, should be a straight swap took me 20 mins to do both levers
Done and dusted.
But, Pete was right about that microscopic grub-screw; stuck in (as was the actuator pin - correct name??) with some horrible brown kakky stuff - weird Italian threadlock?
It was, as my grandfather would have said, as tight as a bull's prick up a parson's arsehole.
Everything else was as easy As Phil said; no tweaking/dremelling needed.
But, Pete was right about that microscopic grub-screw; stuck in (as was the actuator pin - correct name??) with some horrible brown kakky stuff - weird Italian threadlock?
It was, as my grandfather would have said, as tight as a bull's prick up a parson's arsehole.
Everything else was as easy As Phil said; no tweaking/dremelling needed.
It flies sideways through time
It's an electric line
To your zodiac sign
I've got a Black and Silver Machine!
It's an electric line
To your zodiac sign
I've got a Black and Silver Machine!