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Message started by JohnBoy on 04/30/09 at 15:09:52

Title: Help! Need Help replacing the front brake pads?
Post by JohnBoy on 04/30/09 at 15:09:52

Hi Guys!

I replaced the factory original pads, worn pretty thin I might add, and bled the brake line. The brake lever is now pretty firm and stops about one inch from the bar. At a walking speed with no weight on the bike, applying the brake will dive the front. At anything over two miles with my butt in the saddle It will not stop. I obviously didn't get the pads back in correctly. Any ideas?
I don't have a manual and I am flying solo.

Title: Re: Help! Need Help replacing the front brake pads
Post by serowbot on 04/30/09 at 15:30:40

O.K., I'm puzzled.... If you look can you see a pad on each side of the disc?..

Title: Re: Help! Need Help replacing the front brake pads
Post by JohnBoy on 04/30/09 at 15:45:22

Feeling really really stupid here!
Let's see, that is supposed to be Pad, Rotor, Pad...not Pad, Pad, Rotor, right?
My wife is laughing at me, and asking again if I still want to play with guns.
Thanks for your help.

Title: Re: Help! Need Help replacing the front brake pads
Post by verslagen1 on 04/30/09 at 15:46:09

You did see this?

http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1099514582/0

Friction material goes against the disk?

And I don't understand how you could dive the front end and not have braking with your but on it. Diving that easy tells me something wrong with the forks.

Title: Re: Help! Need Help replacing the front brake pads
Post by speedingman on 04/30/09 at 15:54:00

Hey at least you learned something, and hey it could have been a 50mph quick stop that went bad...

Title: Re: Help! Need Help replacing the front brake pads
Post by JohnBoy on 04/30/09 at 16:39:22

Thanks Serowbot,

Pad "Rotor" Pad works much better. I will still have to bleed it again it seems a little mushy now :)
And to think, You have allowed me to bring a little laughter to the whole country, and all I had to do was leap before I looked.

Thank you all for your help
You guys Rock!

Title: Re: Help! Need Help replacing the front brake pads
Post by speedingman on 04/30/09 at 17:03:49

Did you mess up the rotor at all?

Title: Re: Help! Need Help replacing the front brake pads
Post by ALfromN.H. on 04/30/09 at 19:44:34

i would have blamed it on the wife....but then again, i'm divorced so what does that tell you?

Title: Re: Help! Need Help replacing the front brake pads
Post by verslagen1 on 04/30/09 at 20:08:12

Was she walking back and forth naked again? :o