Brake parts: where to buy

[oseaghdha]

Anyone bought brake parts lately?
I need both M/C kits, caliper kits, pads for my 79SF. Looking for the best cost / least problems. Looks like the pads and caliper kits are not a problem to find at Partsnmore, but I have not dealt with them.

The M/C kits: Mikes has the front, but not the rear, so PNM next best?

The '79SF calipers use different front and rear kits, correct? Pads are also different front to rear? PNM list some as rear only for the SF.

I have read thru the posts using the search, but still not sure. Seems some kits had the wrong parts(KL). Costs vary quite a lot.

My pads on front were worn on an angle, is this normal wear? Both sides had this wear. I blame it on sticky pistons, but?

Thanks for the help.
Dan

[TopCatGr58]

Dan,

Yamaha made the specials really "special", and designed them with angled pads to begin with, so they are not wearing unevenly! Due to the single mounting bolt that acts like a pivot/swivel, this design allows the calipers to swivel as the pads wear without needing to maintain perfect parallelism. The rear pads are the flat type, same as the other 78-81 years standards and specials(except the MNS), and all of the standards fronts!

You may actually NOT need the caliper kits, unless your dust covers are badly torn. The rubber Squared O-ring inside the caliper may be able to just be cleaned, and reinserted. I posted a message with photos, IIRC, about rebuilding the calipers, what the corrosion can look like, what to clean etc.!

I haven't done any MC rebuild, so I can't speak for them, but PNM has good parts for this, just not turn signals!
T.C.

[knewsom]

one note about PNM, is that whenever you buy from them, make sure you but EVERYTHING YOU NEED IN ONE GO, because it takes like two weeks for shipping. I've gone so far as to order things I suspected I might need in a month or so just because it takes so damned long.

[Incubus]

PNM seems to have improved their speed lately. I got some parts from them three years ago and it took a month to receive them. The parts came snail mail - on a real snail. But last Wednesday I ordered a bunch of stuff for my XS11 and the Fedex tracking number tells me I'll get them Thursday. From Cananda to Texas in just more than a week is much faster than many U.S. merchants ship. I think they might have grown enough to get their stuff through Customs faster.

Patrick