{"id":79072,"date":"2009-09-20T10:44:15","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T01:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=79072"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:41:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:41:33","slug":"z1000r-pad-replacement-caliper-cleaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20090920\/everyday-events\/z1000r-pad-replacement-caliper-cleaning","title":{"rendered":"Z1000R Pad Replacement? Caliper Cleaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"decob-1857673173\" class=\"decob- decob-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/advertise\" aria-label=\"ad_sample_1456_180_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1.png 1456w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1-300x37.png 300w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1-1024x127.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1-768x95.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1456px) 100vw, 1456px\" width=\"812\" height=\"100\"   \/><\/a><\/div><p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_60307918_0.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_60307918_1.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>A customer with a Z1000R came in.<br \/>\n&#8220;Man, when I opened the cover, brake fluid was pouring out everywhere\u2014it&#8217;s a mess.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe exterior looks surprisingly clean.<br \/>\nLet me take a look anyway.<br \/>\nWhen I removed both calipers\u2014<br \/>\nCorrosion everywhere, everywhere.<br \/>\nThe seal was corroding on the inside, pushing up and deforming the seal, which caused the leak.<br \/>\nWith no seal left, I cleaned everything thoroughly with hot water, polished it, and got the piston sliding smoothly.<br \/>\nI did a pressure test with the grip held tight\u2014no leaks\u2014so next we&#8217;ll replace the seal and we&#8217;re good to go.<br \/>\nAfter replacing the pads, the customer was happy with our comic strip and headed out.<br \/>\nSweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;A customer with a Z1000R came in. &#8220;Man, when I opened the cover, brake fluid was pouring out everywhere\u2014it&#8217;s a mess.&#8221; The exterior looks surprisingly clean. Let me take a look anyway. When I removed both calipers\u2014 Corrosion everywhere, everywhere. The seal was corroding on the inside, pushing up and deforming the seal, which caused the leak. With no seal left, I cleaned everything thoroughly with hot water, polished it, and got the piston sliding smoothly. I did a pressure test with the grip held tight\u2014no leaks\u2014so next we&#8217;ll replace the seal and we&#8217;re good to go. After replacing the pads, the customer was happy with our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[55,115],"class_list":["post-79072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-old-blog","tag-z-aircooled"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79072","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=79072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}