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thank god for post #2

sorry twindallas i didnt mean to quedtion your idea there. let me rephrase. is there any circumstance with the information i have shared here where just capping her off might be problematic?

the thing is on both sides, the other side is capped (still?). i have 2 manual petcocks on my bike. im not at my bike at the moment. this morning i ran the bike on my driveway with my finger on that thing and it seemed to run fine. is there a reason i might not want to just cap the thing? the...

how could I have lost that little black cap? I have one on the other side and the bike was running fine until recently so I assume I used to have both. What should I expect if the thing is open just starting the bike on my driveway? Thanks

what is this pipe thing? should it be covered? please pardon my ignorance

Thanks a lot for the advice guys. I cleaned the caliper pretty good an replaced the piston seal. Unfortunately I put it back together and went for a short ride today and when I got home and up on the center stand the brake was dragging pretty noticeably again. I cracked the bleeder and the...

Thank you all very much. Thanks for the badass advice gggary i think im going to make that screw, that was my original plan if I didnt find a reason not to. What would be a good way to clean the crap in the piston seal groove? its like crusty stuff. I didnt notice it before but i think that...

thanks a lot for the advice everyone. il be trying all of it when i get to it next week. i got to ride my friends bike around yesterday so i feel a little better. my pedal does get stiff when the brake gets stuck and hot so im hoping the spooge hole or whatever is nice and clogged. im still...

Vlad, I have done that, haven't tried it, but i really dont expect that to be the issue. the old seal looked fine. richard, I used brake fluid to put the piston in the caliper. its a 78 xs650 special. what would be a reasonable tolerance for the straightness of the rotor? i can measure the...

Im crying right now because it is nice out and i cant ride my bike. I cant stop crying. My rear brake is broken. When I took my bike out the rear brake got all stuck and was smoking and all hot. I put the bike up on the center stand and i couldn't spin the rear wheel. I went inside for a soda...