Re: Brakes

[Sat Tara S. Khalsa]

Title: Re: Brakes

on 10/23/00 8:39 PM, Mario C. Aguiar at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

"Sat Tara S. Khalsa" wrote:

Eric,

These clearances should be self-adjusting. The only way there should be
appreciable difference is if a piston seal is binding, holding the piston
away from the pad.

Sat Tara,
            Don't forget we're talking about a set of calipers that have been ADAPTED to work with those rotors. I fully agree with your statement if the calipers were designed for those rotors and fork mountings, but in this case, I think Eric is right, IMHO

Dudes,
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the problem. The way I understood what Eric was saying was that in situations where there is appreciable piston-to-piston difference in static clearance you should use shims between the piston and the pad to take up the slack. There are a couple of different ways to understand piston-to-piston differences. One is inside to outside, or caliper-to-caliper (inter-caliper) another is difference within pistons in a caliper (intra-caliper). I took Eric to be talking about intra-caliper differences. I still think that for intra-caliper differences, unless the caliper is cocked out of alighnment with the disk, the only way you'll get a problem is if the piston isn't doing its job correctly. If the problem is inter-caliper difference it seems to me that the shims should be relocating the caliper, not adjusting piston-to-pad distance.

Am I missing something?

best,
Sat Tara