This morning when I torqued up the front axle and lower fork caps I proceeded to install my left and right caliper assemblies.
It was then that I had lots of fluid coming out of the Left caliper. I rebuilt all my calipers (again did not use OEM parts).
At any rate I took the caliper off the brake line and gave it a good once over...the dust boot ring clip had come off and the boot was leaking oil. So, I reset the boot and and clip and went for a bleed and then that's when it hit me that the boot is just a dust seal so the inner seal must be bad. I had intended to take my baby for my first legal GW ride today since it's sunny. So I went back in the house and ordered an OEM seal, clip and boot. At least I did one thing right in my rebuilt, I bought Old Fogey SS pucks. I also installed the Randakks MC to replace my working original with broken mirror mount.
After that, I open the pitcock, pulled the choke and went for a start. It took a few minutes of intermittent starter operation with proper cool down intervals and she start really nice. I ran her up to temp and all seems good with the engine and carbs.
Not too bad for a wanker whoe's all thumbs eh?
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