Is this true, are they guaranteed to not squeal? My front squeals when starting from a dead stop. Have tried everything to fix it. Cleaned pistons, deglazed rotors, cleaned and greased pad pin...

 

Well, I was just going to post about Lyndall's on my rear. You maybe have less dust, greater stopping, and less squealing, but I only have maybe 6K on them and I need to replace them ALREADY?????

I was ready to order them, thinking I replaced the fronts. But, checked the package that I kept and they were for the rear. S%$^it, still have the original fronts, and could have wait on the rears if I had to.

I don;t understand how they can say 18k miles. I'm still trying to figure out why I only got not even 2 summers of riding at the most 6-7k miles. Are they that soft in compound?

Now I'm wondering if I should go back to OEM...

Any thoughts?

 

EBC Kevlars have worked well for me for about 70k miles.

 

Well I have decided to go with EBC after reading all of the info I can. I have 3 options: Organic, Sintered and Ceramic. I want to go with the Ceramic because of dust and braking response. Can I hear some feedback on that? Anyone run EBC ceramic pads?

thanks

 

I pretty much do not worry about dust other then keeping my nose out of it.. Actually do not notice dust except on rotor and caliper. I just clean front rim with Windex. Cannot see a lot of the rear and its pretty corroded anyway. Clean it by spinning with 360 emery cloth a couple times a year. Also have learned over the years that good stopping power requires a soft somewhat abrasive pad. The result being a lot of wear on rotors. I went thru a set of rotors at 33K at 3rd sets of pads including the original. They all still had some life on all of them but they were at least 3/4 gone. I just run the Organic Semi-Sintered Harley Pads. Do all my own work so I do not concern myself much with part cost. I read some where that Ceramic requires some heat in them to be constant and hence more for track but have no experience with them. Before I went too exotic I'd be sure they fit my style of ridding. I would not engineer something like brakes unless I did a lot of homework. Just my opinion and only saying what works for me. Good luck on no dust. Just be sure to go to the people who make the pads and read it there.

 

I put Lyndall Z plus on my rear with a 500 mile used rotor that was in very good condition and after a couple hundred miles they squeel really bad the hotter they get. I'm not going to knock them yet as I need to find the cause but I thought it was going to be a plug and play type of install.

 

I just changed the rear pads on my 04 and and I do it a little different then what it says. First I do not squeeze the calipers in to push the pistons in. I simply remove the pad screws and in the case of the rear pull the axle out and lay the caliper on a box beside the bike and slide the pads out. Then I carefully clean off the dust around the four pistons and get rid of it. Then I carefully push on the brake pedal and push the 4 pistons up about 1/32 more. (be carefully here and do not blow them out) and wipe again. Then I put the old pads back in and using my wide screw driver I put it between the pads and turn it to cam the pistons all the way back in. Since my bike is Dot 5 I just loosen the Master Cylinder cap and put a rag around it to catch any overflow before starting all this. Then I watch all four pistons and slowly push on the brake pedal again. All four should rise equally. Again do not go to far. All four of mine were the same. Surprised me since my pads had uneven wear. If say one or two were stuck it would cause a squeal. My caliper bumper was broke but it was still trapped inside when I pulled caliper off.