Dragging brakes remedy

[Philly_Chris]

I posted this the other day, and got notified of at least one response but never got to read it since the site went down. So thanks if you replied and here's the post again since it was lost...

All 3 of my brakes seem to be dragging to some degree. The discs are hot/warm to varying degrees after a ride. It is like 97 here currently, but that's not why...

Anyway, is there a fix, other than a rebuild to alleviate this? New grease on the front caliper axles? (what type?) Some kind of lube on the pins that hold the rear pads in place? perhaps just working the pistons in and out while off the bike?

Thanks!

Chris
1982 gs850g

[Jay B]

First thing I'd do is take them apart, clean and relube them and see how that goes.

[Jeff Tate]

The above certainly won't hurt. Since disc brakes have no way of retracting, they will usually just scim the disc surface all the times. Unless I'm not reading you on how bad they're dragging this might be what you're referring too. Won't hurt to take'm apart and clean things up tho.

[1100ED]

First thing I'd do is take them apart, clean and relube them and see how that goes.

what do you relube on the caliper--i am going to try to take mine apart in a few days and have a look??

[earlfor]

Tony

Directly behind the brake pads, you will find a cylinder that moves in and out to push the pads against the disk/rotor. The cylinder moves in what looks like a very short barrel. Just take a spot of grease ( I like lithium hi temp grease, but plain old wheel bearing grease will do too) on your finger and smear a very thin coating inside the "barrel". You dont want much grease as you dont want it oozing and possibly getting on the rotors. A coating about equal to what you see when looking at an oilspot on the water is sufficient once you have cleaned the surfaces.

Earl

First thing I'd do is take them apart, clean and relube them and see how that goes.

what do you relube on the caliper--i am going to try to take mine apart in a few days and have a look??

[1100ED]

Tony

Directly behind the brake pads, you will find a cylinder that moves in and out to push the pads against the disk/rotor. The cylinder moves in what looks like a very short barrel. Just take a spot of grease ( I like lithium hi temp grease, but plain old wheel bearing grease will do too) on your finger and smear a very thin coating inside the "barrel". You dont want much grease as you dont want it oozing and possibly getting on the rotors. A coating about equal to what you see when looking at an oilspot on the water is sufficient once you have cleaned the surfaces.

Earl

First thing I'd do is take them apart, clean and relube them and see how that goes.

what do you relube on the caliper--i am going to try to take mine apart in a few days and have a look??

Thanks--is that theory or practice?

[earlfor]

eh eh eh, we're having a special. Today and today only, they are the same. :-)

Earl

Thanks--is that theory or practice?