Hoosier Daddy
Earache my eye...
Welcome! You hit the nail on the head to read up in the manual before you start, but don't worry We'll get ya there! If you are using the manual in my links, it's the Factory Service manual. Much more accurate that a Clymer version. Clymer is a brand name like Haynes.
Sounds to me like you worked the brakes with the caliper off. If so, you pushed the piston out of the caliper too far for the pads to fit back over the rotor. Take the pads off and use a C-clamp to compress the piston back in. Best to put the theaded portion into the piston, so you are pushing on the inside back of the piston. You can use a thin wood block on the other end to protect the finish of the outside of the caliper. Slowly turn the screw of the C-clamp and compress the piston back into the caliper enough to get the clearance you need.
This is a picture of a cars caliper but it shows you what I mean...
Two piece bolt? Connects the speedo? wrench slipped and broke the cable?
Most "two piece bolts" are broken ones... Are you talkin about the front axle? There is a phillips head pinch bolt in the speedo drive to loosen then you can remove the speedo cable first.
Maybe this will help.
Have you removed the nuts, washers, and yokes at the bottom of the forks? shown as 24, 25, 26, and 14 here?
^ This ^Rich Ard said:I use a big C-Clamp and push the piston back in, then install the whole thing.
Sounds to me like you worked the brakes with the caliper off. If so, you pushed the piston out of the caliper too far for the pads to fit back over the rotor. Take the pads off and use a C-clamp to compress the piston back in. Best to put the theaded portion into the piston, so you are pushing on the inside back of the piston. You can use a thin wood block on the other end to protect the finish of the outside of the caliper. Slowly turn the screw of the C-clamp and compress the piston back into the caliper enough to get the clearance you need.
This is a picture of a cars caliper but it shows you what I mean...
Man, I am having a rough time wrapping my head around what happened right here.TGreg104 said:...Moved on to the front and it was going well until I had to deal with the two piece "bolt" for a lack of a better term, the one that connects the speedo. I couldn't get a good enough grip on it to get it loose. The one time my one wrench slipped off and I broke the speedo cable :-\ I swear I'm breaking more things than fixing....
Two piece bolt? Connects the speedo? wrench slipped and broke the cable?
Most "two piece bolts" are broken ones... Are you talkin about the front axle? There is a phillips head pinch bolt in the speedo drive to loosen then you can remove the speedo cable first.
Maybe this will help.
Have you removed the nuts, washers, and yokes at the bottom of the forks? shown as 24, 25, 26, and 14 here?