Brake juddering: THE SAGA CONTINUES.

[crazybigal]

egg or the chicken?
is the inside moving up and down or the outside moving up and down!
most people call the bottom part the fork leg.

No, the staunchion is the fixed bit that is clamped in the yokes (USD forks are a bit anomalous). The movy up and downy bit, that the wheel is fixed to, is the slider. Cos it slides. The fixed tube is the staunchion. Cos it's staunch.

[Max Preload]

All Kawasakis of this vintage had problems with warping disks. Throw a DTI on it, not that you'd need too - the runout was always obvious to the naked eye.

[Max Preload]

No, the staunchion is the fixed bit that is clamped in the yokes (USD forks are a bit anomalous). The movy up and downy bit, that the wheel is fixed to, is the slider. Cos it slides. The fixed tube is the staunchion. Cos it's staunch.

It's spelt stanchion - there's no "u". There goes your naming theory...

[Max Preload]

Yeah, with a couple of V blocks and a dial indicator.
I guess you could roll it along a known flat surface, but that would be the trick - getting a known flat surface.

Any decent precision engineering shop would have a surface plate and vee blocks and a DTI.

[Ixion]

Depends on whether you're a yank or not. Though the derivation was indeed bien trouve

[Max Preload]

Depends on whether you're a yank or not. Though the derivation was indeed bien trouve

Actually, unlike "colour" and "color" it's not one of those cases, but that's nitpicking.

[imdying]

It is how the French would say 'Le pwned'.

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php...rd2=staunchion

[FROSTY:Me]

A thought here dude--its been shuddering since day 1
theres a raft of things that "could be" the problem--as covered off here
But if you've blow ya bugget--why not sell the new disks --clearly they diddn't fix the problem

[The Pastor]

helleujah praise the lord I have a propper and working and not broken brake system.

[Squiggles]

so for those of us who cant read minds... what did you do that fixed it?

[The Pastor]

it was the brake discs that were warped, when I replaced them I did somthing wrong that im not going say.... But its working fine now (at least the first little test did, i'll go for a burn on friday for 80k or so and see hows it holding up (they always seem to take a good ride to get working consistantly)

[Max Preload]

it was the brake discs that were warped, when I replaced them I did somthing wrong that im not going say

That's a bit selfish. This is a forum for helping people, be it helping them split their sides laughing or simply for a How-not-to guide.

Spill the beans!

[The Pastor]

alright alright I may of








put the brake pads on upside down

When changing the brake rotors.


Even though Im sure I put them back on correctly as I made sure to see which way they came out and I checked with the manual.........

Thanks for your help everyone.

Rm

[riffer]

Um... there is a hole in the brake pads for the locating pin, isn't there?

I still have no idea whatsoever how you did that?

Or do you mean the brake pads are the wrong way around so the metal on the back of the pad is hitting the rotor?

Glad to hear you got it sorted.

[The Pastor]

Um... there is a hole in the brake pads for the locating pin, isn't there?

Not for my bike, its a 1986 gpz 1000rx, there is a lug at the top wich slides into a grove, but when I took them out they must of been around the wrong way as I put them back in the same way they came out! There was actually nothing holding them in! But they 'cliped' in so they looked ok to me.