I am recommissioning my 1098 and I am facing a bit of an issue with refitting the rear calliper carrier. I disassembled the hub for cleaning / greasing. I took the calliper carrier off, undoing the circlip which was very tight. Time to refit and there is no way that it wants to go back in. I have measured the space between the wall of the hub and the groove of the circlip and I am measuring 14.66mm. I measured the stack Spacer / O-ring / calliper carrier / O-ring / Spacer and I get 15.74mm. So, I am about 1mm off. No surprise this is a struggle. The spacers are 1mm thick. Does anybody know if there are different thickness for those - like 0.5mm?? For information, I am talking about the spacers #15 in the part page below thanks you for the help
It’s a bugger to get back. Get the circlip into the hub as far as you can and with a flat punch and a bit of tappity-tap-tap you can tap it in until it clicks into its groove. When you’re measuring the combined height of 15,16,17,16,15 you can’t compress the o-rings sufficiently just by squeezing them together with your fingers. Its a big circlip, for which you need big circlip pliers, I think mine are 16”
So, that's one where the hammer is a legitimate tool to be used then ;-) The gentle tap with a rubber hammer did not get me very far so far!
It is a tight fit. Watch for the last shim dropping into the circlip groove. That’s the ball ache. Plenty of grease on the o rings to hold the shims in place and as Paul said, finish off with a light tapping of the clip until it seats.
Thank you - managed to get it to fit It wasn't that tight on the 916-996. I don't completely get why it is that tight.
