Final Brake assembly - looking good

     Today is a good day. I assembled the calipers, and they look good. All of the parts i purchased went in like a glove and the refurbished parts look dapper!

     The front calipers were a bitch to get together, mainly due to the rubber boots for the cross bolts. All the other seals went in a treat.

     

     As you can see - they did come out good. Of not, when disassembling , keep the steel ring washer, you can see it in the picture above. It does not come as part of the rebuild kit, and is required to hold the rubber dust cover in place on the moving piston.

     So the calipers went together, the second easier then the first (lessons learnt), now to the master cylinders.


    I restored the piston kit for the front master cylinder and it went together easily. The seals from Kurvygirl slotted into place without the need for trimming or fitting, excellent. As you can see, the plastic of the cylinder, the rhomboid, is a little aged and crazed. But rather than replace at this stage, I wanted to keep it. The lever was just rubbed down with 4000 steel wool. And the rear master was just paint.

     The brakes are now done, well apart from the rear, which i will get too soon. Next tast is the removal of the front end, service and restore the forks, trash the handle bars for some 60s style cafe racer ones and new headlight. Switch gear is going to be serviced and restored, painted same as calipers etc. Off to the next challenge of this irregular build.