Re: Brake bias adjuster
Posted: Sun May 22, 2016 12:01 am
I just finished rebuilding the brake calipers for our first race this season. When setting a ball park bias I am faced with a problem. My goal is to start with a conservative dry setup slight to the front. Here is my problem. I am able to get both the rear brakes in sink with each other but not the fronts with each other. I am satisfied with setting for the right front and the two rears, but the Left front does not engage in sink with the right front. It engages quite a bit later. I have checked the brake lines and bled the brakes and am confident there is not air in the system.
There is one potential issue that could be the problem. The top of one of the pins on the left front was warn to a point that the proper socket size would not fit, the way it should have. As such I decided to replace the pin to avoid having a problem getting it out later. My problem is that the only spare pin I had was one of the old style pins which is wider than the new ones. I installed the old larger busing with the old larger pin thinking that shouldn't cause a problem as long as I was using the proper size busing with it.
So my question is what are the possible problems causing this issue? Could it be using different size pins for the same caliper even when doing so I used the correct size bushings for each size caliper pin?
Thanks in advance for your help. Pat
There is one potential issue that could be the problem. The top of one of the pins on the left front was warn to a point that the proper socket size would not fit, the way it should have. As such I decided to replace the pin to avoid having a problem getting it out later. My problem is that the only spare pin I had was one of the old style pins which is wider than the new ones. I installed the old larger busing with the old larger pin thinking that shouldn't cause a problem as long as I was using the proper size busing with it.
So my question is what are the possible problems causing this issue? Could it be using different size pins for the same caliper even when doing so I used the correct size bushings for each size caliper pin?
Thanks in advance for your help. Pat