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« on: June 22, 2011, 12:15:57 AM »

When I park the bike fluid leaks out on the left caliper for a few minutes{just a little}. Breaks are working fine. What am I looking at? What should the repair cost at the stealer?
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« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2011, 06:38:28 AM »

Probably need to take it apart, and clean the pistons, and replace the seals.  Just a few dollars if you do it yourself.  see hdlparts.com.

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« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2011, 09:01:20 AM »

Yeah I'll second what MP said. Caliper rebuilds on these two piston jobbies are quite simple and inexpensive. But do it ASAP.
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« Reply #3 on: June 22, 2011, 11:08:53 AM »

Here are the instructions I followed successfully, copied from elsewhere:

There's hardly anything inside of a caliper. Use a blower attachment for the air compressor and stick it snugly into the hole in which the banjo bolt normally resides. You need to be careful blowing the pistons out with compressed air... I use safety glasses, some residual brake fluid usually comes
squirting out in some random direction. The pistons might also come out like bullets if you're not
careful... I jam a couple of one-bys (anything similar would work)  up in there, it serves two purposes...
it keeps the pistons from coming out like bullets, and also, if just one piston came out, the other piston
could still be stuck down in there and the compressed air wouldn't have anything to push on. After the
pistons come out some, I take away one of the one-bys and blow the pistons out further. After that
the pistons can be removed easily by hand.

After you get the pistons out, clean them and everything up like new. I use 1500 grit wet dry sandpaper.
There's not much stuff in a caliper, it might be scary the first time, but the seals are just a couple of
rubber rings, the little booties are just... little booties   ... there's not much in there. Putting the fluid
back into the system and bleeding is a bigger deal than rebuilding the calipers.
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« Reply #4 on: July 04, 2011, 09:36:47 PM »

Thanks for the information much appreciated.
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