Stainless Brake Caliper Pistons

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Stainless Brake Caliper Pistons

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I had severe trouble getting the rear brake caliper pistons out, ending up ruining them.
The actual caliper will clean up ok, the cause of the jamming being corrosion of the alloy behind the dust seal forcing it out against the piston.

Always put silicon caliper grease behind and around the dust seal to prevent this.

Onwards. Check out the price of pistons (Advice. Make sure you are sitting down before doing this!)

Rear caliper, two pistons.
Honda ones from CMS 79 euros plus 19% tax ($92) +shipping, EACH. Total around $200:shock:
David Silver wants £39 plus 17.5% tax +shipping which is cheaper, by 50c Shocked

ENTER THE WHITE KNIGHT!

Take a bow, Ray.(Taurus Rainer)

Ray sent me two beautifully crafted STAINLESS STEEL pistons for the incredible price of $66 inc shipping to the UK.
This price includes the special discount only available to NGW members.

REPEAT. Two stainless steel for 1/3 the price of the two ready-to-rust Honda ones. Amazing!!!

Just to make things even easier, he has put together a chart listing the pistons he can supply.

Check this out.
http://www.proebstl.net/pistons.html

Adding this bit due to a question.

Brake caliper grease should be available from any auto store that sells brake parts. Every one I've bought is like a red gell in a tube. This stuff is compatible with rubber; if you use anything other type of grease it WILL swell the rubber and you'll be back to where you started!
Octane has a thread showing this.

On the piston seals and bores when assembling the caliper, only use fresh brake fluid.
If you are doing the whole system up, maybe try silicon fluid (DOT5 I think).
It's not compatible with mineral fluid though so don't mix the two.

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I bought a set last year.

Outstanding.

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Old Fogey, your link doesn't work because you included a period at the end. Please edit and remove the period and it will be OK. Thanks for the info :-D
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Thanks for that, Dean.
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Very good info. and very reasonable price, even shipping fron Germany.
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Re: Stainless Brake Caliper Pistons

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Hey I know this is a slightly dated thread, however, is Ray still doing this?
I tried shooting an email from the link on his page, but it got returned.
Old bikes are cheap and fun...

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He sure is.

This is his eBay site: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayI ... 0446507526

Or email him at: monoco2010@gmx.de

Let him know you're a NGW member to get a discount.

Can someone from admin can get this info permanently put onto Shop Talk or into the cross-over parts list. He deserves that for his efforts.
I will also put a link to him on the Wingovations link page.
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Those would be a plus. My last bike had the pistons frozen and that blew the master.
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I thank You, gentlemen, for this positive feedback. It is only a small contribution to the Wing thing, which I can make, but I hope some bikes can stay on the road, without the owner completely bankrupt.
OldFogey, can You give me the link to Your website?
I have been in the carribbean for a while, could not respond to messages often...
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taunusrainer wrote:I thank You, gentlemen, for this positive feedback. It is only a small contribution to the Wing thing, which I can make, but I hope some bikes can stay on the road, without the owner completely bankrupt.
OldFogey, can You give me the link to Your website?
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I'm not OldFogey, but I am old ... this is the link http://www.wingovations.com/
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Re: Stainless Brake Caliper Pistons

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oldfogey, just added a link to Your site here:
http://www.proebstl.net/pistons.html
Thank You so much for improving the wing parts sources network. tumb2
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