Sticking front brake

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Kyle Runty

Discussion Starter · Jul 19, 2018

Having some issues with 98 Honda Nighthawk 750. Bought it with a sticking front brake, tore everything down and rebuilt the master cylinder, the caliper (new seals and pistons), new stainless brake hose, new pads and rotor. took it out for the first ride today and the brakes felt fine until I got on a back road and kicked it up to 55mph, brake started dragging and by the time I got pulled over the front rotor is smoking. Cracked the bleed screw to release the pressure and limped it home. Any ideas where I couldve gone wrong? Thanks in advance

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cmonSTART

· #2 · Jul 19, 2018

Is the super tiny relief hole in the master open? It's very very tiny and easy to miss.

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Kyle Runty

Discussion Starter · #3 · Jul 19, 2018

cmonSTART said:
Is the super tiny relief hole in the master open? It's very very tiny and easy to miss.

No idea, Where's it located?

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Eye_m_no_angel

· #4 · Jul 19, 2018

cmonSTART said:
Is the super tiny relief hole in the master open? It's very very tiny and easy to miss.

And in this case, VERY easy to miss.

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Kyle Runty

Discussion Starter · #5 · Jul 19, 2018

Thats probably the issue then, this thing had nasty ass fluid when I got it, thanks for the info guys

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Kyle Runty

Discussion Starter · #6 · Jul 20, 2018

Eye_m_no_angel said:
And in this case, VERY easy to miss.

Underneath that pop tab, thing was caked with nasty brown sludge, thanks guys

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cmonSTART

· #7 · Jul 20, 2018

Eew. Sounds like you need to do some digging..

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