Re: Brakes and stuff

[Jim Gillespie <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gary Slabaugh wrote:
> 
> Jim Gillespie wrote:
> >         As I mentioned a week or so ago, cleaning my front brakes made a *heck*
> > of a difference.
> 
> I unintentionally caused my front brakes to become much more firm
> recently [...] That was about 1K
> miles ago and they still haven't lost any of that newly found bite.

	Sharp brakes are good.  But the way you describe it, I can't help
thinking that what *might* have happened is this: in forcing the pistons
back into the calipers, you've scraped the dirt off the outside of the
pistons.  In other words, you've cleaned the pistons.  But you may also
have forced some dirt back into the braking system.  I don't know
exactly what that would do, but I don't imagine it would be very good.

> I am assuming that I just pushed the caliper pistons out in the
> cylinder and they are now not retracting as much.

	???

                Jim
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