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Technical abillity, Insane ideas, and the love of wierd and wonderfull shit, that there is no time in their over stressed brains for "CRAP" like spelling and punktuation.

Sunday 10 June 2012

MORE PISSING AROUND WITH MY SPORTSTER

 Since ive had my sportster back on the road the front brake has been CRAP.
I hate bleeding brakes and i had to bleed that bastard a 1000 times. 
It only just scraped through the MOT, as it was binding (sticking on, a bit). 
I then bought a piston seal kit, stripped scraped, cleaned then rebuilt and the FUCKING thing was worse. 
As it was a 4pot FZR calliper with a Harley master cylender, the simptoms (loads of leaver travel before anything happens) pointed to the fact that the Harley master-cylender wouldn't push enough fluid for the 4pot calliper.
So i decided to make the calliper fit the FZR forks.
I started with a ply template to get the holes in the right place.
 Then transfered everything onto a 10mm aluminium ( aloominum if your American) plate. I had to drill all around the outer shape then cut with a fret saw, then file , then file, then file and finally file.


 It fits and works a treat (took me 1.73 mins to bleed). when i have more time ill SNAZZ it up with some holes or something so that it looks a little more pleasing to the eye.
Then i had to make a SISSY bar and luggage rack as, Me and my bird and some Dutch people and some Swedish people are all riding to Croatia in two weeks...

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