Curing Brake Rub on Mountain bike: Tools

[RetroCosworth]

Hi all,

I'm not in here often so don't bite my head off.

I've had my Diamonback XCT for a couple years now, and an issue with the rear hydraulic brake has occured. This being the brake rub issue.

What is the easiest way of resolve this?

What tools will I need?

How expensive are the tools I need?

Cheers

Charlie

[Beyond Rational]

Maybe just an allen key.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdZSdfBMBFQ&fea...

[RetroCosworth]

Beyond Rational said:

Maybe just an allen key.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdZSdfBMBFQ&fea...

Cheers for such a quick reply. I've looked around on the internet, and it appears this isn't such a simple job as I thought.

http://www.mbaction.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=6C60613...

[johnnyboy666]

Could be a couple of things really. It could just be that your brakes aren't installed very well and as such the disc isn't running in the middle of the space between the pads or it could be that you have a slightly bent disc. The latter is something that you can try to cure by gently bending/tweaking the disc where it appear to rub, it will never be perfect but you can get it pretty close usually, and the former again is easy enough to do. If you have a post mount then undo it all, pull the brakes on to centre it up and then do it up again. If it is IS mount then you will need to put spacers on the caliper bolts to space it correctly. This is asumming you have standard 2/4 pot hydros and not massively gay 1 sided hydros like the Hayes So1e model. If you have these then you will have to do the above and wind the non moving pad in (although these brakes are pants and I would strongly recommend replacing them with pretty much anything else ASAP).

Hope this helps.

John