Post by lykos23 on Jun 1, 2013 11:17:58 GMT -5
So for anyone that has been reading any of my posts you know that I recently ordered a 50mm BBK from Techdirect, AKA "Scooter Parts Mania" (the speedo puck I ordered from them came with a mini catalog for Scooter Parts Mania, though the prices are way higher on the catalog). Well, that fact is just hilarious because I had forgotten and just now remembered I fried my front brake reinstalling my tire a while back! Now I'm over my monthly budget for parts, yet my front brakes are pretty much fried, while my rear brakes were crap to begin with. 
So here's how it went; my grandfather and I struggled for 20 minutes or so to get the old tire off and the new pirelli tire on my front wheel, and then we finally did that and I installed it. Little did I know that there's a damn spacer there which had fallen out during the wheel removal. So After installing and re-installing this tire a hundred or so times trying to figure out what this scraping was all about, my grandfather found the spacer and asked me what it was. This was both a "doh!" and "eureka!" moment for me. So I installed the spacer, reinstalled the wheel, and took it for a test drive. And it still scraped! Having no idea what I did wrong, I stopped at a stop sign and pressed the front brake as it went squishy and a horrible scraping noise came from the front.
When I got home I noticed that the brake disc was too hot to touch, and upon closer inspection the entire rear of the brake disc was not rubbing against a brake pad but against the wall of the brake caliper...
Needless to say there were chunks of metal melted and fused to the brake disc and my caliper is ruined with the brake pad now sitting crooked against it.
After hours of sanding and scraping all the metal off the brake disk, the disk is good as new! My caliper is pretty much fried though. After reinstalling the tire for the thousandth time, this time using a flathead screwdriver to guide the brake disc in between the pads and making especially sure that the spacer and everything was back in place, I decided to go for a test drive.
My brakes, luckily, still have stopping power. The rear brake won't stop the rear tire no matter how hard I try, even tightening it, it just won't stop the tire when moving, it only slows me down. The front tire stops it just about every time. Even though now the front brake feels squishy and doesn't seem to stop on a dime like it used to... It's been well over a month since all this happened so I had forgotten entirely that my brakes didn't always feel this way, I had just gotten used to it.
So I've been looking at the brake caliper here...
www.scrappydogscooters.com/COMMON_PARTS.html
But I'll be getting my bbk before then.
So, with more engine power, and less braking power, my only question is... Am I gonna die? :/
So here's how it went; my grandfather and I struggled for 20 minutes or so to get the old tire off and the new pirelli tire on my front wheel, and then we finally did that and I installed it. Little did I know that there's a damn spacer there which had fallen out during the wheel removal. So After installing and re-installing this tire a hundred or so times trying to figure out what this scraping was all about, my grandfather found the spacer and asked me what it was. This was both a "doh!" and "eureka!" moment for me. So I installed the spacer, reinstalled the wheel, and took it for a test drive. And it still scraped! Having no idea what I did wrong, I stopped at a stop sign and pressed the front brake as it went squishy and a horrible scraping noise came from the front.
When I got home I noticed that the brake disc was too hot to touch, and upon closer inspection the entire rear of the brake disc was not rubbing against a brake pad but against the wall of the brake caliper...
Needless to say there were chunks of metal melted and fused to the brake disc and my caliper is ruined with the brake pad now sitting crooked against it.
After hours of sanding and scraping all the metal off the brake disk, the disk is good as new! My caliper is pretty much fried though. After reinstalling the tire for the thousandth time, this time using a flathead screwdriver to guide the brake disc in between the pads and making especially sure that the spacer and everything was back in place, I decided to go for a test drive.
My brakes, luckily, still have stopping power. The rear brake won't stop the rear tire no matter how hard I try, even tightening it, it just won't stop the tire when moving, it only slows me down. The front tire stops it just about every time. Even though now the front brake feels squishy and doesn't seem to stop on a dime like it used to... It's been well over a month since all this happened so I had forgotten entirely that my brakes didn't always feel this way, I had just gotten used to it.
So I've been looking at the brake caliper here...
www.scrappydogscooters.com/COMMON_PARTS.html
But I'll be getting my bbk before then.
So, with more engine power, and less braking power, my only question is... Am I gonna die? :/
Main Jet
