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77 GT500 with ASCO Calipers - Piston (Kit)

Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 12:50 pm
by speedfreak
I was kidding myself hoping that I could save the original piston from my calipers by cleaning it up and trying to polish out the pits. I see the light now, and I'm ready to just get a new piston before I destroy seals and have brake fluid everywhere...

I know the Tokico piston will fit the ASCO caliper - yay. Here's my concern. If I search eBay, I'm getting results which show kits that apparently fitt everything. PERhasp all the right parts are there to fit both flavors of caliper, but I don't want to waste $70 just find out I need more... Or worse yet that the piston doesn't actually fit!

Here's what I'm looking at: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Genuine-Suzuki- ... 1057817963

Anyone have any experince with this? Will it fit the ASCO caliper? I'm probably just being paranoid, but I really do hate to throw money in the garbage...

Re: 77 GT500 with ASCO Calipers - Piston (Kit)

Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 2:19 pm
by Coyote
That's a tough one. The 2 calipers LOOK identical on the fiches, but I'm betting they are not the same. The pistons don't have a part number, but the seals do.
They are markedly different 59107-34020 vs. 59107-18410. That alone suggests the piston diameters are different.
Go to Partzilla.com or Alpha Sports and compare the 2 different calipers shown for the 77. I see that one uses a large hex bolt and the other does not. You should be able to tell them apart by that. If you are lucky, the pad set is only $55.41 at Partzilla. If you need the other one, the pad / piston set is obsolete.

Re: 77 GT500 with ASCO Calipers - Piston (Kit)

Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 4:36 pm
by Coyote
OOPS! Those hex bolts are the mounting bolts :?

Re: 77 GT500 with ASCO Calipers - Piston (Kit)

Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2014 11:41 am
by speedfreak
Ahhh - if only it were that simple. What I have on mine is basically the ASCO calipers from the GT550. Aparently they used them on some of the last GT500s off the line. Hence the probalem that they don't show up on any fiche - I litterally have to pull up the GT550 fiche to see my calipers.

The problem is that the only kits with a piston that I can find apparently cover all those models. Which seems unlikely to me - but maybe I'm just being paranoid...