aniwack
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All your brute strength and ……….won’t do anything but Maybe push the pistons off the rotor, which would free up the rear wheel enough to push it off the road to a safe place.O.K. how about this ---
It's late at night on a dark road with no cell phone service. You are riding with a friend and a deer jumps out in front of you and emergency stop into a stuck SMC and now you hear banjos in the distance. Thinking fast you have your friend hold the rear brake lever while you push with full force onto the the rear caliper or pry a screw driver into between the pad and rotor to force pressure into the SMC to release it from its stuck entombment in the cylinder where it now resides. After the piston is pushed free you clamp it open and head for the garage, narrowly missing the banjo wielding hunting party.
Hard. Normally you need tools to remove it.How hard would it be to pull the rear caliper off the bike?
I opened one up for the first time on one of my st1300s(I bought another one since we talked a few weeks ago) while I was rebuilding the front master cylinder. It was not working perfectly so I just took it off the bike last night,, disassembled it and cleaned it. Now it is much smoother. Why not just do this every 12,000 miles with a brake fluid flush?All your brute strength and ……….won’t do anything but Maybe push the pistons off the rotor, which would free up the rear wheel enough to push it off the road to a safe place.
However, it would NOT free up the piston, which would more than likely remain stuck where it is.
And as soon as you pressurized either brake, your starting over.
I’ve seen several rear rotors, brake lines, rear caliper mounting brackets damaged by prying of stuff like a fool.
It it were me….and I didn’t want to damage anything further….and needed to escape the guy with a banjo….of course being a guitarist, I’d probably hang for a while and play a bit….
A much simpler method would be to remove my 8mm box end wrench from the toaster oven, crack the rearmost bleeder, to release the pressure, hop on the bike and ride way to a safe location without Touching either brake….remember your escaping your banjo player, not continuing to ride…
So let’s see…pry stuff and damage more stuff…or loosen one bleeder and don’t touch the brakes till your at a safe spot…
I’ll have to think about this more
But seriously, I would suggest to anyone who had this happen, don’t risk riding the bike, or try to jury rig the brake system.
I’ve opened up more of these units than probably anybody you will ever meet in your lifetime, and have seen them so jammed up that they had to be drilled, tapped, and use a puller to remove the piston.
I doubt you and your friends fingers are that strong.
Be safe, not foolish, I’ve seen more than a couple riders die due to brake issues.