Help please: Dura Ace calipers.

Agency_Scum · Feb 16, 2008

I've just bought these lovelies...

Sooooo elegant and lovely: bleedin' light too!
Trouble is, I can't stop one arm sticking on the rim after applying the brake ( problem is front and rear ). I'm unfamiliar with roadie gear this old. Before I tighten something to death, is there something I'm missing please?

jonnyboy666 · Feb 17, 2008

there is usually a small allen key for centering the brakes on 1 side of the caliper, similar to v brakes, if not then you should beable to centre them by tightening them normally against the frame/fork then adjusting them by using a cone spanner (because it's thin) on the flat edge bolt between the brake and the frame, this is a centering nut, by simply moving it either way it should adjust the position of the brake giving you an even pad contact on the rim.

hope that makes sense, i'm a little pissed at the mo and the ex has been around to annoy me! so i could be wrong and probably am!!!

one day i'll be free of her!!!!!!

Agency_Scum · Feb 17, 2008

Cheers buddy. There's no hex bolt on the side but I'm guessing the flat, thin nut behind the hex bolt on the front of the brake may be a centering/equalising adjuster of sorts.

Max P · Feb 17, 2008

That's it - only the modern stuff has the little allen key.

BTW, picked up a lovely pair of v. early Dura Ace matching levers for those at the weekend. Drilled with tan covers...

dbmtb · Feb 18, 2008

You adjust these with a cone wrench where they go into the fork/bridge. Probably 13 or 14mm.

Agency_Scum · Feb 19, 2008

Brilliant! I must have these brakes! They make the new Ultegras they replaced look like lumpy poo.

flash · Feb 19, 2008

But remember, nobody pulls wearing Shimano

Agency_Scum · Feb 19, 2008

:roll:

Agency_Scum · Feb 21, 2008

Fixed! Cheers for the help lads!!

Help please: Dura Ace calipers.

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