I have a zforce 800 EX. Has anyone ever noticed that the front pads don't ride completely on the rotor? The pads touches the outside 3/4 of the rotor and on one side the caliper is so far from the rotor that part of the pad actually isn't even touching! found it interesting..


You can see on the rotor the bottom hole of the drilled rotor is not shiny and not being touched by the pads.. Two thumbs down of engineering there, if the made the caliper closer, and the pads wider our braking would likely be greatly improved...

[2015 Z Force 800 53/Trail EPS]

Had not seen that. Mine did have both or one of the slides on every caliper siezed which causes then to wear corked or not compress both pads against the rotor...but what yours looks like. Have seen something line that with an ATV that has a bas wheel bearing though.

wheel bearings are good. The mount for the caliper is just simply wrong. The caliper doesn't sit far enough down onto the rotor. Its worse on the passenger side than the drivers side.... It's like they didn't drill the holes in the mount in the right place.. I'm gonna do the pads at the end of the year but other than making a new mount I have no way to fix this lol.

[2015 Z Force 800 53/Trail EPS]

I think while off if it were mine I would go a head and chamfer that side back. Its useless anyway.

I just put a set on ours front and back, no bolts or slides were seized and the pads were
worn evenly, I was surprised after 1500 miles the factory pads were only half worn, I was expecting them to be worn out.