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2014 RTL SE6 ... squeaking

Well this is what i found....Using my machines

cleaned and then checked the rotors...perfectly flat, not out of round in any way.

I did pull the pin lubed it, reassembled entire assembly.

The calipers have no adjustment as per left and right where you can shim it like was suggested. They bolt on from the rear to the front, they slide over machined posts.

The back of the factory pads has a crosshatch pattern of...well IDk what the material it is but it looks composite. So that was an interesting find.

reassembled it all and after a bit of riding around the yard heard the squeak. Care to guess where it was coming from?


The belt! It was rubbing on the sprocket way way to much! Adjusted it to the left, took some trial and error but it is off the sprocket, have to get it tuned in fully tomorrow. As of right now there is about 1/8" gap, more than the recommended 1-2mm....but no squeaking. So will get it where it needs to be tomorrow.

Thank you again for all of the suggestions.
 
Well this is what i found....Using my machines

cleaned and then checked the rotors...perfectly flat, not out of round in any way.

I did pull the pin lubed it, reassembled entire assembly.

The calipers have no adjustment as per left and right where you can shim it like was suggested. They bolt on from the rear to the front, they slide over machined posts.

The back of the factory pads has a crosshatch pattern of...well IDk what the material it is but it looks composite. So that was an interesting find.

reassembled it all and after a bit of riding around the yard heard the squeak. Care to guess where it was coming from?


The belt! It was rubbing on the sprocket way way to much! Adjusted it to the left, took some trial and error but it is off the sprocket, have to get it tuned in fully tomorrow. As of right now there is about 1/8" gap, more than the recommended 1-2mm....but no squeaking. So will get it where it needs to be tomorrow.

Thank you again for all of the suggestions.


FWIW, the fronts should be post mounted as described. The rear caliper, is able to be shimmed with how it mounts to the anchor plate.

Odd how these noises just seem to travel. We were doing internet troubleshooting of the left front brake. Hope you found it with the belt alignment.

For whatever reason that did not make sense, when I aligned the belt properly, I started hearing brake squeaks. That's when I found the shim on the rear caliper mounting.

PK
 
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