Prowler

[LIAW]

I was going to put the forks and wheel back in yesterday but remembered that when I took the brakes off the calipers were reluctant to let go of the discs, so I thought I'd better sort those out first, I expected to have to rebuild the calipers with new seals but after examining them I found they were really gummed up with filth,

I had removed the front braking system all intact so I pumped the brake lever to get each piston to move outward by clamping all but one piston at a time, I used some contact cleaner and got each exposed area of the pistons as clean as I could (no corrosion), afterwards all the pistons were able to be pushed fully back into the caliper by finger pressure, one took a bit more effort than the others so I will rebuild them sometime in the future, but for now they are ok,

I gave the caliper bodies a really good clean as well with some strong soapy water and dried them all off with a hairdryer,

doing the brakes took way longer than expected but it's another job done on the way to being done