Front Pads/Shaft oil.....

patrol21

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• Feb 9, 2016

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Aloha...sure this has been round the block a few zillion times....looking to the early spring for maintence stuff...did my rear brakes in the fall..10K on the clock, figured I would follow suit with the front....rear pads were a 5 minute job...first time around for these on the front...couple of questions

1) Require front tire removal? Done a ton of brakes..sometimes, yes, sometimes no..just curious
2) Pads....recommendations? I have EBC Double H's or something like that on rear now.
3) Not brakes but planning on changing out my shaft oil. Recommendations there?

 

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• Feb 9, 2016

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No you don't have to remove tire,EBC double HH pads.Not sure what mean by shaft oil.

 

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If your referring to the bevel box a quality synthetic 75/90 gear oil should work fine .

 

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Fingers said:

If your referring to the bevel box a quality synthetic 75/90 gear oil should work fine .

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I like Bel-Ray myself, but any high quality "synthetic" 75/90 gear oils should work.

 

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Bedifferent said:

I like Bel-Ray myself, but any high quality "synthetic" 75/90 gear oils should work.

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Thanks All.

 

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• Feb 11, 2016

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Front pads are a 10 min job max. 1 bolt each side, the beauty of cartridge style brakes. EBC HH and no more squealing.

 

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• Feb 11, 2016

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... and make certain to grease the splines in the shaft drive with a quality moly lube at least once every 10K miles, if not more frequently (like, when you change rear tires)!

 

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• Feb 12, 2016

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You shouldn't need front brakes yet. They tend to last a lot longer than the rear. I have over 40k on the original front pads.

 

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• Feb 16, 2016

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mport said:

You shouldn't need front brakes yet. They tend to last a lot longer than the rear. I have over 40k on the original front pads.

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My thanks for the comments...I'm an old school chain guy so shaft drives are new. 40k on a set of pads....nice...I tend to run hard and fast and change out brakes even if there is still surface left....old habits from my race days. Cheers all!