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Old 01-30-06 | 08:26 PM
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mtb-chop
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Originally Posted by Hopper
If you want to fix the problem, take off your disc caliper, make sure all the contact surfaces are clean and flush, re attach the caliper loosely, spin the wheel and lock up the brake. Now tighten all bolts (with brake still locked). Release the brake and voila, you have an aligned caliper.
That's basically the procedure for aligning Juicy 5 calipers. If you don't have the user's manual that came with the brakes, you can download it from Avid (SRAM) here.


Originally Posted by Hopper
Now adjust the inboard pad as already mentioned.
There's no separate adjustment for the inboard pad on Juicys. Once you adjust the alignment, you're done.

If you still have a little rub in one spot, you can experiment with aligning the caliper to different places on the rotor. Easiest way to do this is take not if where the valve stem is when you align the caliper, and if it still rubs a bit, see where in the tire rotation the rub occurs and change the spot where you align the caliper to. A slight warp developed in the Polygon rotor that came with my Juicy 7s and by re-aligning the caliper to a different place on the rotor, I got the rub to go away.

For badsac, they're great brakes - don't give up on them yet.

Last edited by mtb-chop; 01-30-06 at 08:32 PM.
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