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The stainless steel piston kits are what I use on my customers machines remember X2 kits and lube up the sliding pins that go inside the rubber bellows with rubber grease not copper grease otherwise they will stick

Here you go Joe. Edit: Wemoto will be cheaper.

You have an infestation of spanner frats, or possibly ambitious variants of the smaller chuck key lemming. You need to eradicate them: 1. Clear a space round the motorcycle. This needs to be at least 2 feet wide and free of any flat surface above ground level. This provides a potential killing ground any rodent type creature will be wary of. 2. Place a dark coloured cloth on the workshop floor just outside the killing ground. The contrasting colour shows red to beady little eyes suggesting danger, but will make any movement such as that caused by the orange

I've been changing tyres and thought I'd post my notes for anyone trying the same [/url] To avoid any legal action by Haynes I use the barsteward level of difficulty rather than spanners. I'm rating this "Donald Trump" as the brake calliper is full of spring clips that ping off into the dark recesses of the garage. I much prefer callipers that have separate pad retainers and mounting bolts. The front version is WIP. Andy

No real solution I am aware of. The MOD tried a couple. If you turn the whole vehicle over mid way through the service this has a mitigating effect, but is highly labour intensive and has health and safety concerns. You can also buy left hand thread self tappers thus avoiding having to switch over the ratchet. These do however wreck the engine at the second service interval. Andy

Why is it that you use a spanner, put it down then cannot for the life of you find it again 2 minutes later? I seem to spend more time looking for tools I have only just used than I do using them once found! Just about to remove the front wheel and change the tyre on the Integra. Need to get some clip on balance weights first as I prefer them to stick on ones and it's what is used on there now on the little lip that runs around the rim between the spokes.