Now the other side. This one also has contact marks on the cylinder.
We’ll clean it and check it out.
People who ride their pads down to the wire tend to end up like this.
As the pad wears down, the piston extends and the fit between the cylinder and piston becomes shallower.
By the way, the front fork bottom case wears the same way in the back, and you get full braking—
“Clunk”!!
It’s easy to mistake it for stem bearing play, but sometimes the real culprit turns out to be the bottom case.
Lucky—the seal came in! (front only) But it’s still not done yet—
