Project Kawasaki Z650 part 3 Having a blast

Last month I wielded the mighty TIG torch upon my wife’s new fluid clutch slave cylinder and started the job of restoring both the new (not very) clutch and brake master cylinders.

Whilst her front brake master cylinder had no actual problems, she seemed to think that the brake and clutch should match so I sourced a GPZ900R brake master cylinder to match the one for the 900R clutch.

This month I stripped and fully restored the master cylinders like new. I began by buying a couple of pattern rebuild kits and kicked off by using a pick tool to extract the little that was left of the protective boot behind the lever. Without the little cape of rubber, the elements had an open door to cause decay of the inside components that should have been cosseted. Because