rear caliper pad pin siezed
 

Help,
Any ideas on removing the rear caliper pad pin, one came out with a strugle but the other will not budge. Tried lots of things such as WD40, giving it a whack also prayed a little.. no joy.

Any body had a similar problem? and it's now started raining fu**ing thing.

Thanks.
Martin

Yup, welcome to the club. The only way of getting them out is to split the caliper. You will need a new seal. There is no way that you can do this on the bike, so its caliper off time.

And of course you've tried a search on the subject :roll:

Sorry for not doing a search first.. desperation kind of took over :shock:

Thanks for the nod.

Something new for this one though... There's a guy now selling stainless pins on Ebay, they're £3 IIRC and after a slight design glitch he's resized them and they work a charm. Though you'll nede to get the old ones out first.

A guy I know had the problem with his teapot 600. He drilled a small pilot hole through from the blind side and using a thin nail tapped it out.

Ok success. only took a couple of hours :oops:

Hoiw I acheived this near impossible task.

Removed caliper from mounting including brake hose. Was going to split the caliper as per previous threads but was stopped in my tacks by the caliper joining bolts that were also siezed plus I don't have a new seal so that was handy.

Hacksawed a gap in pad pin so that pads would clear gap. This makes it easier to get some purchase on those peskey pins. lots of cursing and mole grip action and lots of penetrating fluid. drifted out one part from the non blind side and used the mole grips for the blind end. You have no chance if the caliper is on the bike.

Ordered stainless steel pins as per the suggestion on this thread. May well still drill a drift pin hole on the blind side as I can't go through this again.

Now were did I leave that darkened room.
Martin

Congratulations. You deserve a nice cuppa tea. :D

Let us know if those new pins fit ok.

Or don't. :twisted:

The pins I got first time were too big... Didn't bother me too much, I just drilled the holes in the caliper out slightly, but what impressed me was that a couple of days later he posted out a replacement set, unprompted, because I'd mentioned to him that they were oversized. On a £3 Ebay transaction, that's nothing less than fantastic IMO...

Do you have the link for the said pins please :?: