1/9/2018 6:12 AM
Edited Date/Time: 1/9/2018 6:13 AM
Robgvx wrote:
Air in the hydraulics and so you've tightened the adjuster up too far to compensate?
Rory_Gow wrote:
Okay thanks heaps! I’ll be workin on it tomorrow !!
If you've got the brake pedal adjusted so there's no free play then ordinarily your back brake would be binding/locked on all the time. However if there's air in the system I've known people tighten the adjustment up to cure the soggy pedal and then if/when the air bleeds itself out it leaves the brake binding.
Another possibility, which I encountered years ago on a 1988 KX500 was that the rear brake calliper forks (the part that the outer pad rests against) would wear really quickly and hence the outside brake pad wasn't being held perpendicular/flat to the disc. This caused the brake pads to tilt and lock onto the pins rather like how a silicone/caulking gun works. That caused the brakes to bind, which in my case resulted in the brake fluid boiling. That caused no brakes. So, not the symptoms you are describing but worth checking. Just see if the outer pad has worn evenly or excessively more at the top. Never had that on any other bike since so maybe it was just that model.