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Old Dec 8, 2007 | 04:44 PM
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The bike is up on the lift for winter cleaning and upgrades. While cleaning today I noticed that the front rotors have stamped "left" & "right" in the part number area of the rotors. They are on the wrong sides. The tire is going in the correct direction & since this is a new bike it must have been that way from the factory. Does it matter? Should i switch them? The only differance that I can see is the direction of the slots in the center( if you know what I mean) are backwards to the ones on the rear rotor.
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Old Dec 8, 2007 | 04:50 PM
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The 2000-up brakes are sometimes noisy. The MoCo came came out with a bulletin a couple of years ago advising dealers to try swapping the rotors to make the brakes quieter. You can swap them or leave them as they are. It doesn't matter.
 
Old Dec 8, 2007 | 07:47 PM
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Thanks for the reply. Guess i leave them alone.
 
Old Dec 9, 2007 | 05:29 AM
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Yep, if the aren't making noise now, leave them alone.
 
Old Dec 9, 2007 | 08:23 AM
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If it aint broke, don't fix it. Or you can fix it til it is broke.
 
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