Brakes

[Carl La Fong]

Well, yesterday my rear master cylinder crapped out. Rats!!!. I went to Wag's site to cross reference the kit and was unable to navigate. The buttons for engine, transmission, electrical, etc. won't respond. Double Rats!!!!! I think I narrowed it down to the correct HD part number, so I'll take a chance and order this part http://www.jpcycles.com/product/2400590
I was supposed to go on a ride this weekend, but it looks like I will be grounded. Oh well, there's a nice, long summer coming up real soon

[Iron Maiden]

Hey Carl I never like to see any of us break down but join the crowd. Sounds like most of us had an issue or two during bike week. Including both myself and Bill. I needed a new gear located at the bottom of the distributer shaft, mine was repaired during a rainy day. So didn't really loose a day. Bill had a small nail in his front tire, this happened the last saturday of bike week so that's how we ended the week. I hope you get yours back on the road soon.

[Carl La Fong]

Yup, "stuff" happens. No big deal

[Iron Maiden]

Hi Carl, Just curious - did this rebuild fix your problem? What were the symptoms? I am still having to pump my lever to get a brake in the rear, good news is they don't squeek any more since Bill sanded them (thank you). We have bled and rebled so now we think we need to do a rebuild on the master cylinder.

[petitemoose]

Do you use the Brembo rear setup like my 05 BH? if so I can send you the one I just took off and you can tell for sure if that is the issue. I know my master cylinder is good because it was able to hold enough friction to overheat the rotor

It has been my experience ( with my sand rail ) that when the Master Cylinder starts "going out" the first symptom is that I have to pump the pedal two or three times to get it to work well.

Got my brake upgrade finished tonight but have not given it a test ride yet. May do it tomorrow IF I don't keep doing all the upgrades and repairs it has been needing.

[Carl La Fong]

The M/C was leaking. The kit took care of the problem. My bike has the Wilwood setup