What you did to your Tenere today??!!

Onslaut

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How much of that rotor have you lost in terms of thickness?

Also I added $35 rubber, 3M backed, tank protectors. I think I forgot to post them in here.

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I’d like to have specific measurements for you but I had to change it because of my lack of checking the rear pads. Ended up metal on metal and had bad grooves in the disc.


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Mak10

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I made it. Rain gutter screen at Home Depot. Under $5.00.
That includes enough to make one for the lower vent. This one is a push in place, cut and bent to fit. It’s pretty snug, and has stayed in place for a lot of miles.DD62BA02-B9FA-48D3-94A0-88E1B554AA9F.jpeg
 

Sierra1

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Cool. I didn't even realize that there was a lower vent. But, yeah, with our bug population. . . . I need to do this. Silver lining to 100F temps. . . . bugs are staying home. Nowhere near the amount now, that there was when it was in the 90s.
 

simmons1

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I’ve considered doing this to my 13. How difficult was install and how well does it work?


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I really took my time and it took 6 or 7 hours to install. I had been procrastinating for years thinking the install would be harder than it turned out being. I did some other maintenance while the bike was taken a part. Seems to work great so far.
 

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Did 600mi service today. Oil was perfect and the drive oil left ultra fine magnetic waste on the plug. Replaced w/Yamalube 10-40 fossil and a Hi-Flow filter. Will be going with Rotella T6 after 2 runs of Yamalube. The drive got 75-90 Valvoline Synth. Cleaned and lubed the shift pivot. Familiar young Tenere growing pains beginning to become evident in the forms of stalling on decel and hidden neutral.

Looking forward to the excellent comfort, reliability, power, and toughness I count on from this bike.
 

holligl

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New Brake Pads, Front and Rear. 3rd replacement set for the rear, 1st replacement for the front. ~66K Miles.
I did have to bleed off some fluid to fit and not bind. It does look like they have changed the OEM fronts. No longer black. It also looks like the inside fronts wear faster than the outside.
 

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Boris

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New Brake Pads, Front and Rear. 3rd replacement set for the rear, 1st replacement for the front. ~66K Miles.
I did have to bleed off some fluid to fit and not bind. It does look like they have changed the OEM fronts. No longer black. It also looks like the inside fronts wear faster than the outside.
I clean my calipers/pistons thoroughly each winter and also bleed fresh fluid through at the same time, my experience is also that the inside pads wear a bit quicker than the outside.
 

holligl

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Odd. They are opposed pistons, right?
They are, but maybe less pressure gets to the outside for some reason. I wonder if some people might rotate them to even the wear. I wouldn't given the low cost/mile, but will keep the lesser worn as spares. I guess I could have just gotten one pair and just replaced the inside.

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Ric H

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New Brake Pads, Front and Rear. 3rd replacement set for the rear, 1st replacement for the front. ~66K Miles.
I did have to bleed off some fluid to fit and not bind. It does look like they have changed the OEM fronts. No longer black. It also looks like the inside fronts wear faster than the outside.
Probably because it's a linked system. Usually when you apply the rear, it activates only one front caliper.
 

gv550

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The front calipers are fed with one hose so no way can you apply pressure to only one brake. All 8 pistons get the same pressure but for some reason the inner pads do wear out quicker, on my T12 and Goldwing and many other bikes that I service. I will, on a rainy day, rotate my pads to even up the wear and clean the crud off the exposed part of the pistons. Rear brake also wears the inside pad quicker, and it’s a single piston, floating caliper design.
 

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I’m seeing the same thing, inner pads wearing a little quicker that the outer ones. Assuming the system is well bled, pressures throughout the system should be exactly the same. My thought is that there is perhaps a bit less mechanical rigidity in the outer portion of the caliper.


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Jlq1969

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I’m seeing the same thing, inner pads wearing a little quicker that the outer ones. Assuming the system is well bled, pressures throughout the system should be exactly the same. My thought is that there is perhaps a bit less mechanical rigidity in the outer portion of the caliper.


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Disregarding the cleaning and bleeding, will it be a delay in returning to the neutral position?… .It is assumed that both should return at the same time, but the outer pistons are closer to the pressure outlet/inlet.

and now comes a question. In the case of the front floating disc of the S10, it seems correct to me that the caliper has pistons on both sides, so that the pressure on the disc is "central" ... in the case of a Bmw GS 800 also with floating discs, but the caliper has the pistons on one side only, so the pressure is lateral, until it comes close to the other pad… .. could this be the cause of “new” discs loosening from their floating supports ??… ..it's incredible the noise they make, he changed them for new ones and at 7000 miles they were loose again. they ended up tying with seals to calm the noise
 
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