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rear brake problems

  • Thread starter Thread starter Jerobi
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GSXR7ED said:
I wonder what happened to the OP? If this was me, I'd make every effort to check back the same day and see what's going on with my thread.

Hope they come back and bring this thread up to speed.





Ed
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he is only a rookie, maybe too embarrassed to admit a silly mistake.
silly really, we all make them......:oops:
 
clarifying pic of the two spacers

clarifying pic of the two spacers

Maybe this will help, you can see the two spacers I think y'all are talking about below. Note that this picture does not show the caliper between these two pieces like it should be.

I think the piece next to the wheel is #7 and the other is #17

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thanks guys for all the feedback. i've been sick the past couple days so the bike got put on the back burner but i took some more pics to try and give a clearer view of whats on there. based on the fiche it appears everything is in its right place. maybe something got distorted at the shop like a bearing or something when they put the tire on the wheel.. still really puzzled at this. any more ideas?
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p.s. everything worked fine before i took the wheel off, and i only took it off to put on a new chain and sprockets
 
Well, the caliper carrier is too close to the hub, so there's a limited number of possiblities

1. Bearing is too thin
2. Something is wrong with the inner spacer

Take it apart and have a look
 
I have the wheel off again and looking down through the middle it looks like both bearings are flush with the spacer part #4. I'd like to take the bearings off tho and check the spacer in the middle but is there any way to take them off with out a special tool? The middle spacer and the 2 bearings are the only parts of the wheel I'm pretty sure have never been taken out
 
Jerobi said:
I have the wheel off again and looking down through the middle it looks like both bearings are flush with the spacer part #4. I'd like to take the bearings off tho and check the spacer in the middle but is there any way to take them off with out a special tool? The middle spacer and the 2 bearings are the only parts of the wheel I'm pretty sure have never been taken out
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If that's the case, I'd be looking elsewhere.
 
Gahhhh! This is frustrating. I have no idea where to go next. Maybe I could try finding a thin washer that I could add to left side of the brake mount to push it over a bit
 
have you fitted spacer #5 on the fiche? measure the width on spacer #7 and hopefully someone will have one lying around they can measure too, so you can compare.
 
#5 isn't backwards, right? The smaller diameter end of #5 goes into #10.

Is the sprocket drum (#10) all the way into the wheel? Not sure why, but mine would sit a little higher out in some of the positions, I turned and tried a couple of positions until I found the one that would seat #10 the lowest.

http://www.boulevardsuzuki.com/fiche...1977&fveh=2133
 
Have you looked at the tick marks for the chain adjustment? If they are way off guess what.......Yup the tire is so cocked in there that the disc is pinched up in the caliper...and youll see that by looking at the tick marks AND by how well the tire is centered in the front of the swing arm.

ALSO, if you dont have the washers and lock washers on the bolts that hold it to the brake caliper mount, the bolts will go too far in and jam against the disc itself..thus "locking up" the rear brakes.
 
Now to Steve...do yourself a favor and get rid of the hairpin clips in the axles..they can get knocked out by road debris or whatever..use the regular cotter pins and bend each leg in a U shape around the axle nut.
 
chuck hahn said:
Have you looked at the tick marks for the chain adjustment? If they are way off guess what.......Yup the tire is so cocked in there that the disc is pinched up in the caliper...and youll see that by looking at the tick marks AND by how well the tire is centered in the front of the swing arm.

ALSO, if you dont have the washers and lock washers on the bolts that hold it to the brake caliper mount, the bolts will go too far in and jam against the disc itself..thus "locking up" the rear brakes.
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Chuck, if you look at his last 2 pictures you can see the chain adjusters look pretty even adjustment wise, also the bolts are nowhere near the disc.
if you look on his first picture you can see that the actual caliper is hard up against the disc
 
chuck hahn said:
Now to Steve...do yourself a favor and get rid of the hairpin clips in the axles..they can get knocked out by road debris or whatever..use the regular cotter pins and bend each leg in a U shape around the axle nut.
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Chuck,
I always thought of those hairpin clips as an "upgrade" against fighting those cotter pins but I'll get myself some real cotter pins as per you.
 
i always use hairpin clips, or R clips as we call them, just wrap a small bit of lock wire around the open end, easy to undo and i have never lost a R clip yet!
 
Age...I dont have my glasses right now...dropped and broke them..I posted up things that I have personally done that gave me similar troubles, thats all.

Probably a good idea to pull the brake lever and remove the pivot linkage and clean the frame hole and the arm..get some new grease in there.



Yes a saftey wire would remove the event of an oddball road stone knocking the pins out. Ive never liked them even on the farm equipment. Ive been brush hogging or discing and suddenly the 3 point arm is unhooked..pin got knocked out again.
 
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It probaby ( the pin ) would never fall out and it is in from the top going down. But i still would at least wrap the open end like he suggested...just for cautions sake!!

Not trying to scare anyone or say it plain wrong...just my cautious side.
 
Heres another idea I just thought of in place of a safety wire..Take and just slightly bend the staight pin that goes thru the hole. Just enough..but still able to straighten it to remove it when time to remove the rim for new tires or other maintenance!!!
 
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