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Siezed Rear Brake Caliper
Hi All
I was fitting new brake pads and decided to give the caliper a once over. I thought it should slide but pulling, pushing, hammering (rubber mallet) and levering would not budge it. I began to wonder if I was mistaken that it should move so I looked in the manual. That was useless so I Googled it which led me to this site where I found lots of info and posts of similar problems - one guy had to cut his pins to get the caliper apart.
Gratefull for the help, here is my ten bobs worth.
The only way I could get it to budge was by finding something strong but small enought to jam in near the pin location so I could lever it apart, the things to hand were small chisels. I used a thin piece of aluminium to protect the mounting bracket and used a 'G' clamp to apply enough pressure. It was a bit dodgy and I broke one chisel and one clamp, once the chesel popped out and hit me in the face (made sure I was wearing safety glasses) so I held a wadge of newspaper over it while I screwed down the clamp.
As it slowly came apart I used extra spacers on top of the aluminium to keep the leverage angle suitable.
It was a real mess, and the bike is only three years old with no winter riding, Triumph had put barely any lube in. I relubed with moly grease and made a small hole in the boot when trying to poke it back in. I have just seen elsewhere that moly is the wrong stuff but it should be ok untill the next tyre change when I intend to have a new boot ready to fit.
Hope this saves someone else having to cut it apart.
Gnasher
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