hondaman
Active member
I have a 1980 GL1100 that I have owned for 18 years now.
It has 106,000 miles, and I do all my own maintenance.
Recently, over the past 2 seasons. While on a ride the first time,
I was traveling down the highway, and could detect that clutch, disc pad smell
around me. I thought it was a trucker or something, not me. I pulled to the next exit,
and the bike almost stopped by itself. On the center stand and the rear disk was smoldering.
I had to use my gloves to remove the caliper,( with a hammer ) and remove the pads to continue
with only front brakes. I replaced the rotor,pads,caliper with a real nice ebay Honda one, cleaned that up
and I had rear brakes, for a while. The problem returned, several parts gathered,rebuilt the caliper,
and checked the master cylinder, all back together good for a while.
This winter I got a good used master cylinder with a new rebuild kit, good rotor, good caliper, and rebuild kit for that.
The system bled great, good feel at the pedal, it appeared that the pads were returning when off the pedal. I thought I
had solved the problem. Last week just 12-15 miles into the ride, and after all that repair, the same problem happened again.
I used dot 3&4 synthetic fluid, and I have a Russell stainless steel brake line.
What am I missing here???
It has 106,000 miles, and I do all my own maintenance.
Recently, over the past 2 seasons. While on a ride the first time,
I was traveling down the highway, and could detect that clutch, disc pad smell
around me. I thought it was a trucker or something, not me. I pulled to the next exit,
and the bike almost stopped by itself. On the center stand and the rear disk was smoldering.
I had to use my gloves to remove the caliper,( with a hammer ) and remove the pads to continue
with only front brakes. I replaced the rotor,pads,caliper with a real nice ebay Honda one, cleaned that up
and I had rear brakes, for a while. The problem returned, several parts gathered,rebuilt the caliper,
and checked the master cylinder, all back together good for a while.
This winter I got a good used master cylinder with a new rebuild kit, good rotor, good caliper, and rebuild kit for that.
The system bled great, good feel at the pedal, it appeared that the pads were returning when off the pedal. I thought I
had solved the problem. Last week just 12-15 miles into the ride, and after all that repair, the same problem happened again.
I used dot 3&4 synthetic fluid, and I have a Russell stainless steel brake line.
What am I missing here???