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Inboard disc - wire circlip removal?

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Inboard disc - wire circlip removal?

Postby AlG » Sun Mar 19, 2017 5:58 pm

I just bought a new disc for my inboard Innocenti disc brake. The wire circip is really strong and the disc isn't moving on the pins so not seating properly.
The disc I replaced had the circlip removed, but I cannot find an easy way of doing this on the new disc. Any ideas how to remove the circlip?

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Re: Inboard disc - wire circlip removal?

Postby Warkton Tornado No.1 » Sun Mar 19, 2017 7:15 pm

What you can do is gently tap the ends of the wire ring around to near one of the three mount holes. Then it is possible to lever (in that hole) against the wire ring so that the end is out of the groove a little. With that done, you can normally get something underneath the ring & then feed it underneath allowing the end to be gripped & pulled out.

It is far easier to do than write up how to do it, but I hope you can understand my attempt...

You’ll need thin screwdrivers, to hand, to get in to flick out the wire ring.

For what it’s worth, I used to modify discs to allow for clunking(!) but nowadays I always refit the anti rattle wire ring after cleaning up/polishing the surface of the hub & lightly Copa-slipping the surfaces. Nor do I increase the three holes size but apply the same techniques to ensure the disc can slide laterally on its mounts. My belief is that the disc will run truer with the intended clearance & therefore less likelihood of tipping/drag against the pads, even if it is only a nat's..... :roll:
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Re: Inboard disc - wire circlip removal?

Postby AlG » Sun Mar 19, 2017 10:12 pm

Many thanks WT. I have polished the locating pegs and sparingly used copaslip. You raise a good point about cleaning up the hub centre a bit as that could also be a source of binding so let me try this before pulling out the circlip. Looks like a bit more work to get it to work nicely.

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