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Sunday, June 7th 2009, 8:00pm

Attempt changing rear break pads

After 9600 km with my '08 GSA i decided, without checking their condition i must admit, to change the rear pads. I never had rear breaking pads lasting mote than 10000km, so last Sat I decided to do it, after i purchased a (expensive) pair or EBC HH.
Removed the mudguard without a problem and then removed the caliper easily. At this point I realised that my pads had at least another 4000 km life on so I said, once I did the labour at least I should spay them with air in order to clean them. I removed the safety clip and tried to push out the pin that holds the pads but ahaaa.... It was impossible!
It took me almost an hour to figure out how this thing work. I pushed with a flat screw driver and a hammer, I tried to figure out whether there is a trick so push it out by turing it in all possible possitions but without success, so after an hour or so i decided to give up (although i managed to clean them) but still the question remains. Maybe I had to push it harder with the hammer? Needless to say that I was pushing from right to left side following the instructions i found here http://www.r1200gs.info/howto/brakepads.html

So is there a trick or I am just too stupid?

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Friday, June 12th 2009, 2:24am

Hi Harry,

I don't understand (or maybe I do :whistling: ) what you did with the screwdriver. The pin that holds the rear pads is secured with the safety clip but also has a spring type ring (how do you English call that...) to prevent the pin from leaving the hole when the safety clip is of. It will probably also prevent rattling of the pin in the hole. But the trick to getting the pin out of the caliper is to use a push rod (a screwdriver won't work here) and use a few mild blows from a hammer and so push the pin to the wheel side of the caliper. In my case the was some corrosion that made the pin stick in the hole. Here below you see the fresh disc and pads. The pin is covered in copper grease.



Some photo's can be found here: changing front and rear brake discs and pads

The rear caliper don't need to be removed for the pad change and not even for the disc change as you can see on the photo's.

Good luck and greetings, Tom.

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Thursday, October 15th 2009, 6:28pm

They finally lasted 15000 klm. The clip was finally removed with a 'determined' hammer bang!
Now regarding the condition of the old pads I must say that they had another 1500 km on them! This is the first time I see such a long lasting pad. Or maybe its me improving my driving style. Naah! i don't think so.

In any case I had to close this , embarrassing for me, thread by posting the result of this effort.

Harry
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