Raise Front Tire: How Many Revolutions Should You Get With a Hand-Spin?
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Raise Front Tire: How Many Revolutions Should You Get With a Hand-Spin?
Just put a HHI 6-piston caliper & floating rotor on the front of my 2007 Softail Custom.
Caliper is centered perfectly on the rotor, brake is bled correctly.
The front brake seems to be dragging a bit. When I raise the front wheel and give a firm hand-spin, I only get a little over 1 revolution per spin.
How many revolutions should I be getting?
Thanks
Caliper is centered perfectly on the rotor, brake is bled correctly.
The front brake seems to be dragging a bit. When I raise the front wheel and give a firm hand-spin, I only get a little over 1 revolution per spin.
How many revolutions should I be getting?
Thanks
Last edited by drspencer; 05-10-2012 at 11:33 PM.
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Depends on how hard you turn the wheel and how much drag there is on the pads, there is some drag from the pads normally. I never counted them didn't know if there was a spec for that. I've worked on cars and bikes for a long time and never did that, count the turns of the wheel. Maybe you will get a techy that has done that. For me if it spins free slight drag from the pads then ride the sucker
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This is like asking about the fall away voodoo science.
It would be hard to define how many revolutions. I guess a guy could try it with the caliper removed and with it installed. It probably boils down to personal experience as to what the acceptable drag is to let the wheel spin an acceptable number of revolutions.
It would be hard to define how many revolutions. I guess a guy could try it with the caliper removed and with it installed. It probably boils down to personal experience as to what the acceptable drag is to let the wheel spin an acceptable number of revolutions.
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Either way, check that the caliper is equally centered over your disk. Mine was pinned all the way to one side and the wheel was TIGHT.
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This is similar to another question..."how long is a piece of string?".....
I had some brake drag on my back wheel. I could hear it when I pushed the bike around. It's gone now that I have several thousand more miles on but I have no idea how many free turns per unit force you should get.
I had some brake drag on my back wheel. I could hear it when I pushed the bike around. It's gone now that I have several thousand more miles on but I have no idea how many free turns per unit force you should get.