Seized calliper - help please.

[Grooverider]

Hi guys.

I have, locked away in my parents garage, an old Honda CD250u which I used as a hack for just about everything years ago when I was skint (only slightly less skint now !). It's been rotting away for about four years now and it's fair to say it looks like a proper hunk o' ****e. Anyway, as it stands me in no money, I thought I'd take it apart and teach myself some home mechanics instead of ruining the AT. Finally got it started today which for me was quite an achievement, but the the front calliper pistons are seized. I mean really stuck fast. How do I go about fixing this ?. Can it be fixed or is a replacement the only way ?. I've left it soaking in wd40 overnight although I'm not holding out much hope.

Any tips much appreciated.

Thanks

(hope this thread is in the right place ?)

[djadams]

If you take the caliper off, and take the pads out, you can pump the pistons out. If one's coming out faster than the other, you can hold it back with a g-clamp as you carry on pumping the other one out. You want them all to be nearly out, not one completely out and the others stuck fast.

Once one piston is completely out, and the others nearly out, can hoik them all out and clean them up.

Take the seals out and discard them

Clean the calipers up in the grooves the seals sit in (probably corroded) and put together with new seals.

Job's a good'un.

[Grooverider]

Top stuff, I'll get strait on it.

Many thanks.

[zxtrevr]

hello, hows things going with the CD? I've got one in the shed bought it off ebay last year just because it was cheap, gonna strip it and build something a little more intresting.

[Grooverider]

Hi mate

Have to be honest I did'nt do much to it in the end. Got the caliper working again but never got around to ordering parts that i need to get it road worthy. I was pricing it up last month though, and think i could sort it out for about £100, so I might drag it out of the garage and get it done. I have to say, it does little to get the pulse racing but I did enjoy the care free riding it offered and it never let me down. Brilliant for bombing around town on too.

What are you thinking of doing to it, I'm not sure it could carry off the street fighter look ?!.

Paul

[zxtrevr]

might do a twin shock scrambler look, have a few spares kicking about that might fit, looking around for 17" road legal knobblies, nothin started yet but you never know.