Billet6 caliper Seals Any suggestions??
Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 1:56 pm
Here's one to test the combined brains of the forum...
These calipers have been lying under my bench for about 10 years - they're six pot Billets and they need seals. I bought them through a third party, and the actual guy who got the money left the country and never came back... They had been used on a zxr750 racebike - so they are the OLD narrower Kawasaki zxr fit not the later one that was same as most Suzukis - but when I got them fitted and tried to bleed them they leaked. I sent them back to Harrisons for a rebuild but they told me that the seals were no longer available and they could do nothing with them. The calipers are quite early and at some point about 1995 their seal supplier's premises burnt down and when they got new seals from a new guy they were a different size, so all the calipers from then on were made with different seal size. The seals are in the body of the caliper not the piston. Apart from that the calipers are identical to the later Billet6 if you bought one now, apart from the matt grey anodizing which I don't think they much any more but which I think looks really good.
So the question is this - anyone any suggestions? These are not even any use as doorstops because they're too light. I have another set of Billets they're awesome calipers pity to have them just lying there. Anyone know much about seals, in a business where they come across seals, have access to seal suppliers that might have something, or anything else they can suggest. All the bits for these are here including the old seals for reference. Or if anyone thinks they could do anything with them and wants to make me an offer...
These calipers have been lying under my bench for about 10 years - they're six pot Billets and they need seals. I bought them through a third party, and the actual guy who got the money left the country and never came back... They had been used on a zxr750 racebike - so they are the OLD narrower Kawasaki zxr fit not the later one that was same as most Suzukis - but when I got them fitted and tried to bleed them they leaked. I sent them back to Harrisons for a rebuild but they told me that the seals were no longer available and they could do nothing with them. The calipers are quite early and at some point about 1995 their seal supplier's premises burnt down and when they got new seals from a new guy they were a different size, so all the calipers from then on were made with different seal size. The seals are in the body of the caliper not the piston. Apart from that the calipers are identical to the later Billet6 if you bought one now, apart from the matt grey anodizing which I don't think they much any more but which I think looks really good.
So the question is this - anyone any suggestions? These are not even any use as doorstops because they're too light. I have another set of Billets they're awesome calipers pity to have them just lying there. Anyone know much about seals, in a business where they come across seals, have access to seal suppliers that might have something, or anything else they can suggest. All the bits for these are here including the old seals for reference. Or if anyone thinks they could do anything with them and wants to make me an offer...