Originally Posted by
longpete
I think that's nonsense. Could you still brake before you tried to change the pads? Breaking= moving pistons. That the heat damaged the seals this is possible.
Did you trie to push the pistons out without brake pads attached? If that worked put some brake fluid on them and push them back, (move them out a few times, push them back and clean off oil.
Brakes with dot u have to bleed once or twice a year.
the pistons would push out, hence the brakes still stopped the bike. They wouldn’t retract far enough to allow new pads to fit in.
I think their point is that continuing to use the brakes when the pads were past their useful life added to the heat problem.. it seems reasonable that braking hard to make pads that are shot work could increase the heat generated, and limit the ability to dissipate it.
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Last edited by merlinextraligh; 07-22-22 at 04:51 PM.