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Originally Posted by javadog View Post
On a bike that nice, I would suggest fully disassembling the calipers and master cylinders and rebuilding them. Every single bike I’ve worked on from that era has needed it. People just don’t change the brake fluid nearly often enough. The rubber seals never had a 35 year design life, either.
I plan to do this after I’ve gotten the titanium caliper pistons that are available. Helps that the PO was one of the most OCD guys on bike maintenance I’ve ever met. I changed all other fluids except in the rear shock and they came out almost as new as what went back in.
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