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I would get the rubbers boots/seals from yamaha... They are cheap...
Look on E-bay or OTR .. someone might make stainless steel pins..

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Originally Posted by had (Post 195887)

The slides can be the same but use plenty of grease during reassembly. Could be caused by water ingress due to damaged rubber boots? A �5 fix.

�5 fix :smilies0943: The 0 button on your keyboard must be broken! ;)

I had to fit new boots on the sliders (as one had a split) when I last changed my rear pads a few months back - they were just shy of �50 from the dealer. Fifty quid for two small bits of rubber! Searched high and low for pattern items to no avail.

Apart from pads, spring clip, boots and pad retaining pin, there is nothing else available to rebuild the caliper. Seals, piston, sliding pins are not available as spares!

Oh yeah... and a new caliper is �350! :Christo_pull_hair:

50 pound ?.... They fair get into you fella's

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Originally Posted by Pleiades (Post 195907)

Pleiades is right. I sent an email yesterday to Metropolis Yamaha dealer asking for a price for the 5DSF591700 part, which is the rubber boot:

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...0/268/1up0.png

The price is:
5DSF59170000 SOUFFLET, ETRIER 37.820 +VAT :wtfk::wtfk:

For some reason they gave me the price of the little piece pin pad piece (5VKF592410 in the pic) and it costs 11,5 pounds! What a rip!

Time to search for an alternative... :thumbsdown:
Pleaides, are you sure you looked well out there?? :D

P.S. Seems like the sliding pins are not a separated part? THe catalogue does not show the part number.

I cant remember what I paid when I needed one of those little rubber boots about 6 months ago but it was nowhere near �37+VAT. I did think it was a lot for what it was but something around a tenner is in my mind.

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Originally Posted by Austin (Post 195943)

Let me know if you remember where you found then :D :ebay:

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Originally Posted by hebbo (Post 195915)

Pleaides, are you sure you looked well out there?

I searched high and low, in the UK and overseas, to no avail. I even looked at other bikes that use the same caliper too, from Aprilia through to Triumph... and nothing came up!

Having said the above, I thought I'd have another go at searching out an alternative and would you believe it, I found a cheaper source... and it's from BMW!:smilies0349:

Rear caliper rubber boot repair kit BRA30312 for the F650/700/800GS rear caliper, which is the same as the Tenere item (abeit with a slightly different mounting bracket and in black).

Available here (sixth item down) for �19.42 - not exactly cheap, but half the price of the Yamaha parts.

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Originally Posted by Pleiades (Post 196021)

Great finding Pleiades. How did you check that the Brembo caliper from the Ten is the same?

I also looked at these rubber boots for the XTZ660'98 on Ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...:X:RTQ:GB:1123

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-XTZ...item54009b8adf

They look very similar to the ones from the Ten, although I double checked and the part number is not the same. I asked the shop and they cannot tell whether it will fit the Brembo brakes on the Ten.

Looks like the BMW's are a safer bet.

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Originally Posted by hebbo (Post 196035)

How did you check that the Brembo caliper from the Ten is the same?

Visual inspection of a mate's bike. Then I had a look at the obvious thing first - pads, and indeed both the F800GS and the XT660Z take the same pads: Brembo (07BB02), EBC (FA208). After that I cross referenced the rest of the stuff: Pad retaining pin, spring clip and boots, and all match up. Interestingly you can get a replacement piston seal kit from BMW, but not from Yamaha, which is worth remembering for future reference.

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Originally Posted by hebbo (Post 196035)

Looks like the BMW's are a safer bet.

Reckon you're right. Not sure how long the ebay rubber would last? Those boots could have been held in stock since 1998, so they may well be past their best?