{"id":77083,"date":"2010-06-09T16:22:30","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T07:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=77083"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:42:09","slug":"zephyr-750-rear-caliper-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20100609\/everyday-events\/zephyr-750-rear-caliper-repair","title":{"rendered":"Zephyr 750 Rear Caliper Repair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_61366874_0.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_61366874_1.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_61366874_2.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_61366874_3.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_61366874_4.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>We discovered this during a recent Deco-mainte visit.<br \/>\nDust seal protrusion<br \/>\nCorrosion inside the seal pushes the seal out.<br \/>\nThe piston is rusty too.<br \/>\nThe interior is far more gunked up than expected.<br \/>\nI scrape off what I can with an ear pick first.<br \/>\nThen I polish with a brush on the rotary tool. Polish, polish, polish.<br \/>\nThe inner wall is heavily corroded and rough.<br \/>\nI apply metal rubber and reassemble. \u2606<br \/>\nAnd there we have it\u2014a smooth-operating rear caliper!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;We discovered this during a recent Deco-mainte visit. Dust seal protrusion Corrosion inside the seal pushes the seal out. The piston is rusty too. The interior is far more gunked up than expected. I scrape off what I can with an ear pick first. Then I polish with a brush on the rotary tool. Polish, polish, polish. The inner wall is heavily corroded and rough. I apply metal rubber and reassemble. \u2606 And there we have it\u2014a smooth-operating rear caliper!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[55,82],"class_list":["post-77083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-old-blog","tag-zephyr-750"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}