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GS850/GS1000G front brake slider pin rubbers help needed

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Ukcalling

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Hopefully can pick someone's brains again

Rebuilding my front brake calipers on my 1980 GS1000G and the rubbers on the slider pin on both calipers are shreaded. ( Same parts as a GS850)

Have ordered replacements at best part of ?50 for the 2.

Part number AXLE, CALIPERS NO. 2[FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]59306-45200-000[/FONT]

Parts have arrived but have no rubbers. Spoken to the dealer and parts are correct and come with no rubbers but rubber is not listed as a seperate part so cannot order them

Is it ok to just not fit the rubber or is there a trick to use something else?

Thanks Nick
 
It's not the rubber boot I'm missing pal. I have new ones of those.

The slider pin itself has a rubber sleeve on it, over part of whats called the axle which is machined to take it. When you buy the pin it comes with no rubber just the pin and you cannot buy the rubber, hence not sure what to do, as no rubbers and cannot buy them 😟
 
Just found a pic of a 59306-45200 on ebay, and sure enough it comes w/out the rubber sleeve. That's just silly. Sorry Nick, I don't have an answer for you, just confirming what you got appears to, unfortunately for you, be correct.

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Yep - just what turned up!

Sure I'm not the only one whose faced this - anyone come up with a fix?

Thanks Nick
 
Yep, find a suitable section of silicone hose. I rummaged around fuel hoses and found something suitable. That bodge lasted for years until I got some low mileage calipers and reset the clock on the brakes.
The wrong hose will swell and jam, causing sticky brakes. Only use red rubber grease.
 
That's bonkers to supply a part then not supply the part that fits on it, I have stripped and rebuilt mine but I cannot remember the fitment of the rubber so I cannot advise on not using them without the rubber.
but I feel your pain. A bit of suzuki madness.
 
The only decent solution I've found is, as noted, scare up a low-mileage set of calipers on fleaBay. Lots of Suzukis used the same caliper bodies. Mine were getting pretty rattly at around 120,000 miles, and the bores seemed to be wearing, not the pins. I bought a lower mileage set and rebuilt those.

Many sellers parting out a bike mention the mileage, but sometimes you can snoop around in their other auctions and see the mileage on the instruments from the same bike.
 
Oops my bad.

Ukcalling said:
It's not the rubber boot I'm missing pal. I have new ones of those.

The slider pin itself has a rubber sleeve on it, over part of whats called the axle which is machined to take it. When you buy the pin it comes with no rubber just the pin and you cannot buy the rubber, hence not sure what to do, as no rubbers and cannot buy them 
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Grimly said:
Motorsport have gone all weird about Eu viewers, but for European buyers CMNSL have it in stock for four quid.
https://www.cmsnl.com/suzuki-gsx400e-1986-g-general-export-e01_model13615/bush-axle_5931345200/

You can see here the number of bikes that used it...
https://www.mickhone.com.au/part/suzuki/5931345200
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Ukcalling said:
Thanks for the part info

Looks like they might be right so have ordered them in hope ��

Thanks for the help

Nick
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Yep, thanks for the info Grimly. That wouldn't be the first time Suzuki left a crucial part out of the fiches for a few years. The cam chain tensioner seal is another example.

UK, let us know how it works out!
 
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