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05-26-2012, 06:43 AM
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1999 1000gs Brake Lock Up?
Have a '99 1000gs. Barely ridden bike and the brakes are locked up... Dirty calipers? Any ideas would help. Thanks
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05-26-2012, 07:50 AM
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SHED (Shit Head)
Joined: Oct 2010
Location: San Diego CA
Oddometer: 224
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not familar with the model
1000gs?
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05-27-2012, 06:24 AM
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Location: Colorado
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99 GS Brakes
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Sounds like a case of contaminated brake fluid.
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05-27-2012, 12:03 PM
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Beastly Adventurer
Joined: Oct 2004
Location: Anchorage, formerly Spenard (hub of the universe)
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rubber hoses are coming apart inside... makes like a check valve, This is fairly common on bikes around Y2K if you still have the original lines. DO NOT bleed the front brakes if you have ABS because it will puke bits of rubber into the power module. This happened to me. get new lines or have them made local. clean & purge all the steel lines. maybe pull the pistons on the ABS & check them too.
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05-27-2012, 12:26 PM
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Joined: Apr 2006
Location: Denton, TX
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This aint twitter. Details on your '99. Did you buy it and the brakes locked up? Did you do anything mechanical prior to the brakes locking up? Did you drop the bike and the brakes lock up? First time that they locked up? Has it unlocked on it's own while just sitting over time?
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05-27-2012, 09:01 PM
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Which way is north?
Joined: Jul 2007
Location: Thousand Oaks, California
Oddometer: 149
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stuck calipers
On my 1997 R1100RS I did a caliper rebuild because they were caked in accumulated break dust. However a solid cleaning of the pistons and bores with the seals pulled off (and then installed before assembly or course) would not hurt. I used isopropyl (sp?) alcohol as the cleaner and put everything back together using brake fluid to lubricate. I may give that a try.
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05-28-2012, 03:56 AM
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Love those blue pipes
Joined: Dec 2003
Location: Southern Louisiana or Southern England or ...
Oddometer: 4,096
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The front brakes started dragging on my 95 and I stripped the calipers to find lots of sediment behind the lower pistons that was not getting flushed out during fluid changes. Cleaning that out seemed to fix things for a while but changing the brake hoses was the thing that eventually cured the problem completely.
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