Front Brake Rub

[ScooterCop]

This past week, I had the front calipers off to remove the front wheel. When reinstalling the calipers I got them onto the rotors and pressed the pistons in. But now the brakes pads are constantly rubbing on the rotors, even slowing the previously free spinning wheel.

Will this sort itself out? Should I be worried? Anything I can do to remedy the situation?

[Tipover_Bob]

This past week, I had the front calipers off to remove the front wheel. When reinstalling the calipers I got them onto the rotors and pressed the pistons in. But now the brakes pads are constantly rubbing on the rotors, even slowing the previously free spinning wheel.

Will this sort itself out? Should I be worried? Anything I can do to remedy the situation?

 

Scooter:

You got me worried big guy. I just had my front wheel off to replace the front tire and the brakes are just exactly like they were before after a couple of pumps on the lever. Are you very sure you got the disk back between the pads? You can tell by looking at the top of the calipers. There should be about 1/4 inch space between the tops of the pads. Other than that everything should quickly resume the status as before removal. If you accidently jammed the disk behind a pad, and it would probably go there if you forced it, it would drag and it would probably ruin the disk very quickly.

 

Tipover Bob

[ScooterCop]

No, I knew enough to check that way before I even so much as rotated the wheel.

[arbee]

Is ABS fitted?

This was my symptom before the ABS pierced my front & rear brake hose by applying pressure at all times

[Ken H.]

Depends upon how much rubbing you're talking about. Some drag is normal on all disk brakes. If it's enough that it's heating the rotor, that's an issue. Unfortunately it'd hard to quantify here. Is there another similar bike you can get to to compare to yours?