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ty 250 brake spring loading?

Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 1:50 pm
by riffraff
Hi all. Trying to load this spring on the rear brake of my foot pedal of my 1975 ty 250b...anyone give any advice as its not Co operating at all

Re: ty 250 brake spring loading?

Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 6:03 pm
by David Lahey
This is an A model so there is no sidestand mount on the swingarm, but otherwise it is the same.

Re: ty 250 brake spring loading?

Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 7:51 pm
by riffraff
Hi mate thanks I know how it goes but I can't get the spring in place there is not enough room for a lever I put the one end of thvspring in the little hole but the spring is loose in place.. so I figure I have to load it somvhow

Re: ty 250 brake spring loading?

Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 8:30 pm
by David Lahey
it might fit easier if you take the pedal arm off the shaft, then fit the shaft through the spring, then fit the pedal arm on again. That way you can load up the spring before you attach the pedal arm. That's what I do anyway

Re: ty 250 brake spring loading?

Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2013 7:58 am
by riffraff
Hey Dave yea I got the pedal arm off...I must be missing the basic of this lol it seems that to load it every thing from the uprights of the frame,a stop lug,and rotation seem to stop this from occuring I will have another crack. This morning

Re: ty 250 brake spring loading?

Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2013 9:32 am
by riffraff
David Lahey wrote:it might fit easier if you take the pedal arm off the shaft, then fit the shaft through the spring, then fit the pedal arm on again. That way you can load up the spring before you attach the pedal arm. That's what I do anyway

This is the result I am getting. As you can see there is no load on that spring at all

Re: ty 250 brake spring loading?

Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2013 12:52 pm
by David Lahey
by the look of the way the coils on your spring are misaligned, and the end is in the wrong spot, I'd say that the spring might have been bent/overloaded or twisted
I just looked at a TY175 spring thinking that you may have one of those, but the TY175 spring shape is nothing like the TY250 spring so it is not that

Re: ty 250 brake spring loading?

Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2013 1:23 pm
by riffraff
Yea I was sort of thinking of maybe putting in a vice and try to bend it back it certainly looks like it been abused in some way

ty 250 brake spring loading?

Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2013 4:27 pm
by riffraff
That worked mate just bent it back a bit and it is working fine now thanks for your help mate hey