Subject: cracked brakeler
Author: Ted Ward
Date: Jun 16, 2005, 7:58 AM
Post ID: 1719030051
I have a worse story, although it may end up being cheaper than your
muffler. My rear brake has been vibrating and making noises lately.
Yesterday I tore it down everything looked just fine. Tightened up
everything just to be sure and ground ridges off pads etc... Put it back
and same old thing, maybe a little better.
On the way home from work I went to apply the rear brake and "WHAM" my
rear brake lever is sticking up to about the middle of my batter cover
and won't go back down. I look back and my brake stay rod is dragging. I
was only a few blocks from home so I drove on. Got home and looked the
bolt holding the stay rod is sheared off, the brake actuating arm (thing
that is directly connected to the brake splines) is broken off, the
brake tie-rod is wrapped 360 degrees around the "axle" and the lever
that releases the brakelight switch is mangled. I *think* everything
else is okay.
Looking back I'm thinking all this has to do with one of two things:
1. My rear brake pads are too thin and the spreader was getting too far
horizontal (or vertical)
2. Remebering something Greg Field said and someone else disputed... My
actuating lever was pointing down and on thinking about it I think it
should have pointed up. This would mean when I hit the brakes the hub
would push away from the lever instead of towards it, pushing towards
the lever would tend to cause the bike to suddenly brake harder. This is
the way the brakes were set up when I bought the bike.
Fun fun fun
Ted Ward
Greg Bender wrote:
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