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My front left brake caliper has been giving me fits. I can't tighten the top left caliper bolt without the brakes binding up and I can hardly push the bike in nuetral.
I tried taking the guide pins out and clean and grease them. I noticed the shoulder of the top one was bent. The pins "Appears" to be straight, but when I tighten the top one all the way it binds the brake. Today I kept hearing the brakes rubbing (really annoying). I've done a million car brakes, but this is puzzling.
I just took the caliper off and the inside pad is about gone, yet the outside appears new? The inside one doesn't appear even either (because of the binding?). That's probably due to the way I bought the bike and have ridden it (ie.. after I bought it I noticed this bolt loose and tightened it, this is when my problems began).
Anyway, The only thing I see is that the caliper mounting bracket isn't centered on the rotor???? However the right bracket appears centered on the right rotor. Scotty (thanks) said to use washers as spacers. This appears to be a great Idea. I can use washers to shim the bracket, but what about the caliper? Isn't it supposed to float? Anyone have a caliper binding up before?
I guess my true question is this: Is there some hardware I'm missing? ie... spacers or something? Also, why the bent guide pin? Nothing else is bent? Although in another post about my speedo drive, the drive was rotated into the bracket, but it broke the speedo cable, I can't believe it bent the bracket?
Also, I have the top spring and one other spring that came off during my last removal. I put this spring on the inside bracket. Should there be 2 springs, one on each pad? Or just 1 and on which pad?
When I say spring, I'm talking about those sheet metal bent configurations that act as dampeners.
Any help, as always, is greatly appreciated.
I tried taking the guide pins out and clean and grease them. I noticed the shoulder of the top one was bent. The pins "Appears" to be straight, but when I tighten the top one all the way it binds the brake. Today I kept hearing the brakes rubbing (really annoying). I've done a million car brakes, but this is puzzling.
I just took the caliper off and the inside pad is about gone, yet the outside appears new? The inside one doesn't appear even either (because of the binding?). That's probably due to the way I bought the bike and have ridden it (ie.. after I bought it I noticed this bolt loose and tightened it, this is when my problems began).
Anyway, The only thing I see is that the caliper mounting bracket isn't centered on the rotor???? However the right bracket appears centered on the right rotor. Scotty (thanks) said to use washers as spacers. This appears to be a great Idea. I can use washers to shim the bracket, but what about the caliper? Isn't it supposed to float? Anyone have a caliper binding up before?
I guess my true question is this: Is there some hardware I'm missing? ie... spacers or something? Also, why the bent guide pin? Nothing else is bent? Although in another post about my speedo drive, the drive was rotated into the bracket, but it broke the speedo cable, I can't believe it bent the bracket?
Also, I have the top spring and one other spring that came off during my last removal. I put this spring on the inside bracket. Should there be 2 springs, one on each pad? Or just 1 and on which pad?
When I say spring, I'm talking about those sheet metal bent configurations that act as dampeners.
Any help, as always, is greatly appreciated.
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