Brembo master cylinder rebuild place?

[SpeedyCorky]

Well Brembo front master cylinders official suck. Yea they feel great and all, but the all seem to fail after a year or two - at least in my experience. So as a result i've got a collection of non-working master cylinders... sad

I've seen rebuild kits on Ebay but i dont trust them, nor myself to install them properly.
Is there anywhere/anyone you can send them to, to have them rebuilt/fixed?
would be a shame to just throw 'em away

 

[295566]

holy cow batman! Y u no trust yourself to rebuild them? It's pretty damn simple.

 

[Krooklyn]

Nope. You used to be able to send them to Yoyodyne when they were the US Brembo dist, but you cannot get them rebuilt anymore in the US. Basically, you can send them to Brembo in IT, but not sure what the cost is now. It was pretty high last time I checked...

edit - Fred @ Yoyodyne used to charge $175 back in the day (~2011) - you shipped it to them (Yoyodyne and then they shipped it to Brembo IT). I'm sure the cost has gone up. With the price of MKII m/cs being ~$220 new it just doesn't make sense. Someone really should start selling those seals...I wonder if the seals from a Accossato kit would work...

 

[Demoni]

Found a guide on the OPP webpage
OPP Brembo guide
Dose not look like a very complex process but I can totally appreciate the hesitance of working on something your life relies on.

After a bit of digging I came across Race Technologies, their focus is Brembo in the 4 wheel motorsports sector but they look to have a strong relationship with Brembo. Might be able to help with service or spare parts? Plus they are local!

RaceTech
Blog

It's a shame that Brembo spare parts are so hard to buy. It's like that intend their systems to be wear items.

 

[Krooklyn]

Found a guide on the OPP webpage
OPP Brembo guide
Dose not look like a very complex process but I can totally appreciate the hesitance of working on something your life relies on.

After a bit of digging I came across Race Technologies, their focus is Brembo in the 4 wheel motorsports sector but they look to have a strong relationship with Brembo. Might be able to help with service or spare parts? Plus they are local!

RaceTech
Blog

It's a shame that Brembo spare parts are so hard to buy. It's like that intend their systems to be wear items.

That's not rebuilding a Brembo, but just replacing the pushrod and washer if you've crashed. You can buy those kits everywhere for cheap and the repair is simple. The issue I'm talking about (and I think OP as well) is when the internal seals wear out. The don't even show those parts being removed from the m/c in that pdf. You cannot buy the seals for the MK II or RCS m/c anywhere.

This recall doc shows an OEM Brembo radial piston/seal, which are the parts I'm referring to, which cannot be ordered anywhere.

https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2017/RCSB-17V812-2711.pdf

 

[afm199]

That's not rebuilding a Brembo, but just replacing the pushrod and washer if you've crashed. You can buy those kits everywhere for cheap and the repair is simple. The issue I'm talking about (and I think OP as well) is when the internal seals wear out. The don't even show those parts being removed from the m/c in that pdf. You cannot buy the seals for the MK II or RCS m/c anywhere.

This recall doc shows an OEM Brembo radial piston/seal, which are the parts I'm referring to, which cannot be ordered anywhere.

https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2017/RCSB-17V812-2711.pdf

What he said.

 

[Hooli]

This recall doc shows an OEM Brembo radial piston/seal, which are the parts I'm referring to, which cannot be ordered anywhere.

What about the Corsa model?

 

[Maddevill]

This recall doc shows an OEM Brembo radial piston/seal, which are the parts I'm referring to, which cannot be ordered anywhere.

https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2017/RCSB-17V812-2711.pdf

Ducati won't sell any of those kits without it going to a recall bike? That sounds lame.

Mad

 

[Krooklyn]

What about the Corsa model?

Not sure if that's any different, but likely same situation as RCS and MK II.

Ducati won't sell any of those kits without it going to a recall bike? That sounds lame.

Mad

Those kits won't fit the RCS or MK II. I was just using that pic as reference for the part in question.

 

[Krooklyn]

Bumping this thread because I think I've found a long term solution. The solution? Buy a Gale Speed m/c. They are reasonably priced (a bit more than Brembo), but you can actually buy m/c seal kits for them.

http://www.acv.co.jp/galespeed_en/01_master.html

 

[afm199]

Bumping this thread because I think I've found a long term solution. The solution? Buy a Gale Speed m/c. They are reasonably priced (a bit more than Brembo), but you can actually buy m/c seal kits for them.

http://www.acv.co.jp/galespeed_en/01_master.html

There's a reason people buy Brembo, almost all racers use Brembo, and it's the only product see on the MotoGP circuit.

 

[Hooli]

There's a reason people buy Brembo, almost all racers use Brembo, and it's the only product see on the MotoGP circuit.

But not all street riders are racers. Besides, we need to pay for our own shit.

 

[Krooklyn]

There's a reason people buy Brembo, almost all racers use Brembo, and it's the only product see on the MotoGP circuit.

While I agree (I am currently running two MKII 19x18s on my bikes), since Gale Speed have a decent rep and the fact they're Japanese I'd be willing to try them out. The lack of providing a rebuild service for the race M/Cs in the US is pretty shitty of Brembo IMO.