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[Closed] Sticky lever - hope mono mini

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One of the levers doesn't always return properly, and leaves the brake dragging. It's on my girlfriends bike and she nearly passed out going up a hill last week because she didn't realise the back brake was half on!

I'm normally happy fixing mechanical things, but if it's a piston seal in the lever body, would it be best to send it back to Hope?

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Posted : 12/02/2012 11:49 am
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Try the lever pivot bolt for being too tight / sticky or the brass bush in the lever.


 
Posted : 12/02/2012 12:05 pm
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Thanks. The pivot bolt is fine, as is the little brass thing that connects the piston to the lever. It feels as if it's the piston itself.


 
Posted : 12/02/2012 12:18 pm
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Simple enough to do if fiddly - could be the spring in there or the seal - youneed small circlip pliers to do the strip tho - I have done a lever once - it wasn't difficult


 
Posted : 12/02/2012 12:20 pm