Ransomes Motor Triple Brake Adjustment

[hanysmiglanc]

Hi! I have a problem with my Motor Triple. It only brakes when the footbrake is almost touching steering column. I took off wheels and brake guard and set the clerance between disc and pad to 0.015in or 0.4mm but the one of the rods is touching the thing you screw the wheel to and second one i pushed all the way into caliper and it makes the disc very hard to spin with two hands. Could someone tell me how to adjust it? Here are photos of it

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[trusty220]

One thing we found when these were in everyday use was that the internal part of the caliper used to seize into the outer slide. The only remedy is to take the whole caliper off (it’s only held on with two bolts) and completely clean it and reassemble with a very thin smear of grease to stop it rusting. You can then use the big adjusting bolt to set up your 15 thou clearance in the safe knowledge that it isn’t only adjusting one side of the pads.

From your description it sounds like you’ve adjusted the caliper correctly but the slide isn’t returning and is binding on one side of the disc.

[hanysmiglanc]

Thanks for the resopnse. The calipers on the right side were seized so I took them off and fixed them and regulated the clerance and everything works fine except the pedal still falls in the floor and braking force is very weak. Do you have any idea how could I fix this without changing brakepads? mine idea is to shorten the bar that goes from the pedal to that thing that connects to rods from brakes an make the bars that go to the brake calipers longer by unscrewing the connectors a little. What do you think about that will it work properly?

[hanysmiglanc]

Topic closed I did everything like I said in previous post and now the brakes work.

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