Wed, 11 Feb 1998 13:06:03 +0100
- Message No. 2148
From: Sture Qvarfordt
Subject: RE: Problem with the frontbrake
Hej Allesammans,
Yes, I have had that problem too. I my case I thought it was caused by the
fact that a part of the rim that holds the dust gasket in place was broken
(3-4 mm was gone) and gasket would bulge out in that sector. I changed the
gasket and it has worked allright for a year. We are i the middle of winter
now and here in Stockholm it means a lot of salt and sand on the roads.
There are also some kind of dust/mud coming from the tyre studs work on
the pavement. All this has a bad effect on the brake cylinders and
calipers? so I have to wait and see if it still works smothly by spring.
Mvh Sture Q.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dölle [SMTP:doelle@cww.de]
Sent: den 10 februari 1998 15:44
To: XRV
Subject: (XRV) Problem with the frontbrake
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

dipper@normans.isd.uni-stuttgart.de