Rear Brake Pedal Seizing Up

Rear Brake Pedal on my K8 SV seizes up with depressing regularity. I've become quite good at sorting it but has anyone else had the same problem and found a longer lasting solution?

[Biker Biggles]

The long term solution is to remove it from the footrest and clean up the crud from the bits that rotate with emery cloth or similar.Then grease it up and reassemble.The shortcut is to squirt some penetrating oil around the pivot and hope it creeps in the right place.

[Sid Squid]

Do a search - covered a number of times, with a full long term fix written up.

Originally Posted by Biker Biggles

The long term solution is to remove it from the footrest and clean up the crud from the bits that rotate with emery cloth or similar.Then grease it up and reassemble.The shortcut is to squirt some penetrating oil around the pivot and hope it creeps in the right place.

Tried the above on a number of occasions. Still seizes up - search of forum did not come up with any better idea

[JulesW]

I find the search function next to useless, I must be using it wrongly because I usually get pages of irrelevant garbage to sift through.

[Sid Squid]

The problem is likely this:

Originally Posted by Me!

Remove the lever from the footrest and remove the fibre bush from inside the lever *very carefully* - the bush isn't available separately and it's easy to damage - if you look close you can see where the bush is split, gently get behind it and roll it up a little you'll be able to pull it out, if you look inside the lever you'll see where corrosion has built up behind the bush, expanded, and squeezed the lever onto the footrest pivot, causing it to drag, if you gently scrape away the corrosion smear the area with a little grease so it doesn't corrode so easily and reassemble it should be fine.