patmann wrote:
RonKZ650 wrote:
No reason in this world to remove the wheel, the calipers come right off after removing the bolts. Good luck on your EBC pads. I think you'll have to invest in a set of ear plugs.
Do you have a better supplier???
It may just be me being unlucky, normally having high mileage bikes ect, I don't know, but I wasted so much $$$$ trying to make different pad sets work including Vesrah, EBC and Ferodo. They just flat won't work on a KZ. Like I said, maybe just me. I tried all the usual remedies including auto pad goop to supposedly quiet down noise, sanding the pads, sanding the rotors, slotting the pads. Nothing worked at all. Sometimes the brakes may be quiet for a couple days after fooling with them, but the noise always returned. I'm not talking a little squeel either, I'm talking a shrill ear wretching 100db scream that send pedestrians jumping for cover at 100 yds away. On newer stuff like the GPZ series I had no problems, but on older KZ all were a no-go. I just bite the bullet and buy pads through Kawasaki, watch ebay for nos parts, or take used pads out of junked bikes. To be perfectly honest I did have one set of Vesra's that worked real good but wore out in 1/3 the miles of a stock pad set. That was my first set of aftermarket pads. After that no luck whatsoever. I tried the same pads in different KZ650s, in my old H2 too and they squeeled in all the bikes the exact same level.