Rear brake lever hanging up

[Pat L]

Thanks!!! The members of this forum rock :clapping:

Much relieved. Will try to clean today as a short term help.

Pat, I have some very good moly based waterproof marine grease that you are welcome to use during the teech meet (or sooner if I am home you can stop by or call).

Thank you! I'll take you up on that, at the tech. meet or perhaps before.

 

[Donal]

On a regular basis, i.e. daily, after coming to a stop, I'll stick my toe under the brake pedal and see if I can pull it up, just in case it's sticking. It's a quick check to make sure the "design flaw" isn't rearing its ugly head.

Last time I did this and discovered that yes, the pedal wasn't returning completely, was about 27,000 miles ago, during the Frankenbike Rebuild. Took the assembly apart, cleaned it up thoroughly and was preparing to re-assemble. Couldn't find my tub of moly paste. Couldn't find my tube of lithium grease. I was about to reach for some Crisco to slather that sucker down when the ol' lady hollered at me to get in the house and fix that damn leaky cold water faucet on her bathtub.

Put down my tools, cleaned up and grabbed my inside tools. Took that sucker apart, found a torn O-ring and headed down to the Mom & Pop hardware store for a new set of O-rings.

While I was there, the guy helping me at the store reminded me to get some plumber's grease and load both assemblies up real good.

While re-assembling the faucets, I couldn't help but notice both of them were already packed full of grease and didn't really need more, but I shoved some in there anyway.

Finished inside, I went back out to the Feej to finish putting the FJR's rear brake assy back together. STILL couldn't find my "Garage Grease" so I put a thimbleful of the plumber's grease all over the brake pivot and the inside of the brake arm.

3 years later, that waterproof, high temp crap I got from the hardware store, designed for keeping faucets working smooth, is still all over the pivot and brake arm, doing its job. Thinking about the faucet rebuild, those original faucets, with water flowing through them on a daily basis, had plenty of grease still in the housing.....in 20 year old faucets!

Moral of the story??

Don't let yer damn kids in the garage where they can take stuff and never return it, like your your $20 tube of Honda Moly 60....which may work great on drive splines, but doesn't work nearly as well as the snot that comes out of a $2 tube of shit that came from a 1940's era hardware store.

Design flaw?

Sheayeah!!! :glare:

According to the MSDS sheet it's just plain old lithium grease, so whatever you can find in the garage should be fine

Don

 

[Auburn]

Thanks!!! The members of this forum rock :clapping:

Much relieved. Will try to clean today as a short term help.

Pat, I have some very good moly based waterproof marine grease that you are welcome to use during the teech meet (or sooner if I am home you can stop by or call).

Thank you! I'll take you up on that, at the tech. meet or perhaps before.

I am doing steering head bearings this Saturday morning. If you stop by after 8 and before noon. You can take care of it then.

 

[Pat L]

Thanks! However my wife and I were doing the RSVP (Ride from Seattle to Vancouver and Party) bike ride this weekend. Tired