Wed, 11 Feb 1998 02:32:57 +0200
- Message No. 2143
From: Phoebus Katsanos
Subject: Re: Problem with the frontbrake
Dölle wrote:
>
> Hi folks !
> I just have a question to you.
>
> Yesterday I got my @ back from my dealers garage. Because of defect
> frontbrakes I had to pay a bill of 500 DEM to get rid of my problem.
> The problem was that the brake-pistons which let the brakepads bite the
> brakedisks did not want to move back into the brake-saddle. This depends
> on the dirtcrust around the pistons which do not let the pistons slide
> past the gaskets into the saddle. That causes permanent heat up of the
> breakdisks and hopeless tries of pushing the @ by hand. So I ordered my
> garage to clean the brake-pistons and change the gaskets in the
> brakesaddle.
> My dealer said this is a strange problem which does not happen very
> often.
> So now I want to know if I am the only one to whom that shit happened ?
> Please tell me, until then
>
> Ingo Döring
A guy from our club had a similar problem, but as we found out the hard
way when we took the brake appart his mechanik had done something funny
with his brake pad. It had been worked (how do you say this...) rubed
with metal to reduce its width.
I don't know what this guy was thinking, but he defenately destroyed
not only the brake pad but also the brake disk.
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