peeling and we’re working on it. I ♡ skeleton M-201 has solid peeling power.
Just to be safe, we mask up in the machine shop and put on 3M face masks before we start.
Generally speaking, if you cut corners in this world, you end up paying for it, so be careful.
We’ve been carefully peeling away because it’s a small gun coat job.
First we open it up and give it a cleaning. Based on the corrosion, I’d say this is probably its first disassembly ever.
For its year, there wasn’t much corrosion at all.
With Suzuki, the piston kit isn’t expensive, so it’s a good deal to replace them as a set.
We put it in a bag inside a stainless steel container and skeleton it in there.
It’s always gross to look at. There’s no point dwelling on the peeling, so we’ll leave it and move on to other work.
We’ll polish the hub master too, so we heat it up and remove the bearings.
They come out by hand, or if you flip it over they just slide out = gentle on the hub.
I wish all bearings came out like this.
Conversely, I wonder if they’d come out if we shrunk them with liquid nitrogen?
It has quite a bit of that concrete-like texture that speaks to its history. It’s got character.
Time passes… and the polishing is done. It’s smooth and shiny.
We’ve completed the aging care! ♪
More time passes… we had lunch too.
We’re going to paint this one, so we use a coarse shot = the paint should grip well.
The calipers are gold. Everything else gets flat black.
More time passes… flat black is pretty forgiving, so it looks like this.
…time passes and we’ve finished it in a stock-like gold.
This time we tried the Daytona 34550 SUS air breather. It might actually be pretty good.
We assemble the caliper seals with CCI MR20.
It’s a dream lubricant that grease enthusiasts should experience at least once.
It’s like, “Wait, did I get better at caliper OH?” because the piston slides in so smoothly.
It’s nice when care shows through in the places you can’t see.
Aging care complete.
Nothing is leaking, but the hub seal is gripping so tight it’s stiff.
The iron collar is wearing down from it, so you can imagine how much pressure there is.
It’s a good idea to rough it up a bit beforehand. Rubber stones work surprisingly well for this.
This hub… it’s really thin, isn’t it?
It looks like it could fall apart in a heartbeat if you’re not gentle with it. Of course, we replaced the bearings too.
