Freddie that's great strop! I really like it. Sadly they tossed an entire fire hose at work and another guy beat me to it. Or I'd have a pile of the stuff.
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Freddie that's great strop! I really like it. Sadly they tossed an entire fire hose at work and another guy beat me to it. Or I'd have a pile of the stuff.
Man, I have a local cycle shop and it's the ONLY cycle shop where I am smiling as I leave.
Every other one I have stepped into I was holding my ass as I walked-out.
Betcha there is a whole aftermarket setup which will smoke those 50 year old designs?
Perhaps for the same money?
Harly dealers. Everything list price. Like a 20 dollar aspirin at the hospital! :rofl2:
Dirtiest Job In Town---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX7qpR4Mr-I
A Harley is not a very economical thing, it would seem.
Then, neither is my old Triumph.
Even when you can do the labor yourself, it's like fixing the car...Or more.
Yep! You are so right, Triumph's, Norton's, BSA's all those English scooters weren't cheap to work on. I have a c-clamp in my tool box with a 1/8" thick piece of rubber on it for some of those brake calipers & I also had one of those K&D tools which I couldn't find but it was very similar to this one:
Capri Tools Brake Pad Spreader and Piston Compressor Tool | eBay
The Harley's like the one I have that was totaled have a 4 piston caliper & the brake pads could be replaced w/o pulling the caliper off by using a stiff putty knife between the disc & old pads & prying the pistons in & the pads would fall out when pulling the pins out. That was the way they showed us at Harley. You just had to make sure you pushed the pistons all the way in but it wasn't hard. Then on the ones with dual disc brakes, the pistons would sometimes stick some, so I would blow all that old dust out of there, spray brake cleaner on them, blow that off & spray some lube on the pistons & push them in. I would then pump the front brakes until the pistons came out again & would repeat until all 4 pistons were working again. People loved it, then my dealership started charging them for it.
Back to razor's..................:soapbox:
So I took your idea but instead of pipe, I used a coffee cup in my guitar vise. Thanks again, Freddie
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