Rear Brake Pads Replacement Trophy 900

Hello all. Hope that you're enjoying this riding weather .

I need to replace the rear brake pads on my Trophy 900 (probably guessed that already from the title) and was hoping someone here had an idiot's guide for that. Looked online but can't find much, just a vid or two on Youtube for similar looking brakes. My usual mechanic is too busy to do the job and I get the feeling from him that it's too small a job compared to how much work he has on.

Got the pads and like the idea of doing it myself so any help you guys could give a noob like me would be appreciated. Many thanks.

 

Thanks for the responses. Am working nights over the weekend so I'm just about to get some sleep and will look at your vid crispey, cheers. Hopefully all the tools in my Triumph kit are present, the models are similar and if I understand the video I may give it a shot before work.

Otherwise, thank you for the offer thebiglad. I'd love your help if I haven't posted success in 24 hrs.

 

Here are the pics thebiglad. I don't have a tool for the star-shaped screw attaching the caliper to the frame, is that a polydrive? Hope the tool is easy enough to find. Too late to go to Halfords now so won't be doing this tonight.

Hope these are enough photos for you, if not then please let me know. I also took a picture of the brake disc as it's showing marks that aren't on front one. The pads are pretty worn down so would you say using the rear brake is causing this? Hope that it's not seizing. The top screw holding the caliper on was pretty loose and I had to tighten it by hand, not good.

Thank you for the encouragement MetalliKarl .

 

thebiglad, thanks so much for this. Wish that I could tell you of my success but haven't done it yet. Got everything together to do it tonight but found the right silencer is in the way. After staring at it for a few minutes, I thought better to seek more advice. Here's some pics of my exhaust and connections:

Am I going to have to take the whole exhaust off the frame or is there a simple way to get the silencer off (that I'm not seeing)?

 

Yeah, looks like the bolt by the footrest is also keeping the pillion rail attached. There's another torx screw in there too, might need to buy more tools as I only got the socket to fit the caliper. Give it a go tomorrow .

 

Hey! Kind of hoping you're keeping an eye on this thread. Left the job until this afternoon and things were going fine until I decided to see how the brake pedal affects the caliper pistons. When I took the caliper off the bike the pistons were all the way down and didn't think I'd need the g-clamp. Pushed the pedal a couple of times, the pistons started rising and now they won't go back in. Tried the g-clamp on it and put a fair bit of pressure on it but they won't budge. Am worried that I'll break the caliper if I tighten the clamp too much. Any ideas?

 

Yeah, they are both in the caliper. They moved a little since last writing and now are pushed upwards at the same level as each other. Pushing one down moved the other up but they need a lot of force with the clamp to do that. Will try putting the old pads back in and see what that does. Will keep you updated. Thanks so much for the quick reply .

 

OK, update. Tried your first option and I used the clamp to push down one piston. The other one came up but I got the clamped one all the way down. Repeated with the other piston and the one I got down did not raise. Got very excited and followed the rest of your instruction to get the new pads on and caliper back on the bike.
However, pumping the rear brake pedal is doing nothing. Rear brake does not work. Should I be pumping it for a while? Pushed down on the peddle ten times and isn't having any affect.
Since writing the above I tried it again and the rear brake seems to be having some affect now. Not much tho. Think I'll go for a ride around and see if anything changes.

 

I did clean with some hot, soapy water and a toothbrush. Got the feeling that much of the crud is under what I can see of the piston.