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I'm rebuilding my stock TLR 6-pot Tokiko front calipers. The TLR manual says the new seasl should be assymerical and must be put in facing the correct direction, with the wider side of the wedge shape pointing outside and toward the open end of the cylinder. I can't easily tell which way is which as the seals look about the same width on top and bottom, though they are not supposed to. One side face was shinier than the others on both the old and new-old ones though, is that any clue? And the newest ones with the new number that supercedes the original are shineir all over so there is no "shiny side"...
In the back I am running a radial 4-pot Tokiko from the front of an '06 GSXR 1000. Are those seals also assymetrical? I can't tell up from down with them either. I was hoping to avoid downloading the GSXR manual if anybody knows the answer.
For the old 6-pots: The new seal kit seems to be made of a new shinier material. I also have a new old-style seal set. I have a spare unused old-style piston set.
But I see the much newer radial has pistons coated with some fancy hard coating. Looks like good stuff. Perhaps I should have ordered all new pistons for the 6-pots as I see my old numbers have now been superceded. I wonder whether the new psitons now have a similar coating or differetn material? Too bad when Suzuki supercedes parts they don't make it clear exactly what the change was.
In the back I am running a radial 4-pot Tokiko from the front of an '06 GSXR 1000. Are those seals also assymetrical? I can't tell up from down with them either. I was hoping to avoid downloading the GSXR manual if anybody knows the answer.
For the old 6-pots: The new seal kit seems to be made of a new shinier material. I also have a new old-style seal set. I have a spare unused old-style piston set.
But I see the much newer radial has pistons coated with some fancy hard coating. Looks like good stuff. Perhaps I should have ordered all new pistons for the 6-pots as I see my old numbers have now been superceded. I wonder whether the new psitons now have a similar coating or differetn material? Too bad when Suzuki supercedes parts they don't make it clear exactly what the change was.
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