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I have just put one on my bike and have a question about "truing the caliper" as the instructions call it.
They say to mount the calipers on the forks and then set the 1/3 2/3 gap for the pads while the CPS bolts are loose. Then you have to move the outside pad in until it hits the rotor and holds the actuating arm firmly. You then tighten the CPS bolts and back off the pads to get the correct spacing again.
I understand that this is meant to align caliper and pads with the rotor, but it seems that doing this pushes the caliper towards the outside so that the inner pad is now rubbing on the rotor and even using all the adjustment in both pads doesn't allow the pads to get back to a 1/3 2/3 spacing. To my limited understanding it seems that because the inner pad doesn't move you will always skew the caplier to one side.
I have the brakes working well (still breaking in), but I am obviously missing something when truing the caliper.
Advice would be appreciated.
Wombat
They say to mount the calipers on the forks and then set the 1/3 2/3 gap for the pads while the CPS bolts are loose. Then you have to move the outside pad in until it hits the rotor and holds the actuating arm firmly. You then tighten the CPS bolts and back off the pads to get the correct spacing again.
I understand that this is meant to align caliper and pads with the rotor, but it seems that doing this pushes the caliper towards the outside so that the inner pad is now rubbing on the rotor and even using all the adjustment in both pads doesn't allow the pads to get back to a 1/3 2/3 spacing. To my limited understanding it seems that because the inner pad doesn't move you will always skew the caplier to one side.
I have the brakes working well (still breaking in), but I am obviously missing something when truing the caliper.
Advice would be appreciated.
Wombat