Pad Springs and Shims - reuse or replace?
Hey all.
I've decided to put new pads in my FZR (paranoia continuing after the recent KB ride to Martinborough).
Even though the brakes are going a lot better now (filling up the reservoir and putting in new fluid in helped - I guess the old fluid was a bit worn out - it was a dirty brown colour), I've managed to get my hands on some replacement sintered street pads (Galfer's) off trademe at a great price.
My Haynes manual recommends (insists!) that I replace the pad springs and shims EVERY time I replace the pads.
Well my springs and shims look okay, and Craig at Sawyers in Welly tells me that this is bollocks - you can reuse the pad springs and shims.
What do you guys do?
And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.
- James Dickey, Cherrylog Road.
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