So I snapped the fork brake post while tearing down this recently acquired Gary Fisher Tassajara. I was initially gonna after a new fork, but found these cheap DiaCompe long arm side pulls. Front actually set up pretty nicely and, in the interest of matchy-matchy was installing them in the rear as well. I had trouble with the drive side arm not staying centered so I tightened the brake on the stay brace. And tightened. And tightened. You know that feeling you get when you hear that little voice sayin “it shouldn’t be tightening quite this much” – welp yeah, I had that feeling a little too late…
by Briny_life
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(I know “tightness” isn’t how you center the pads on these brakes, but the whole brake moved back & forth so the nut & bolt never felt quite snugged up when I started tightening).
Putting a brake on a fender mount will do that. At least the brake post was already gone so the gut wrenching feeling was already behind you
In my old job we used to say, “Tight is tight, tighter is broken.” These things happen. Can it be salvaged?