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gorpracing
05-05-2014, 02:41 PM
I have an 06 450er. I cant get the front wheels to turn freely. The front breaks drag real bad. I have replaced the pin the caliper rides on and greased them. New pads and all cleaned but will no release and roll free. Help thanks

CJM
05-05-2014, 10:17 PM
Pistons in the calipers, need to rebuild or replace the calipers.

LxMxL97
05-06-2014, 06:25 AM
Or the disks/rotors could be bent

kt1148
05-08-2014, 07:46 PM
One of my front calipers did the same thing. I couldn't find new seals for the piston so I just removed the piston & cleaned the seals then put it back together and bleed them.
After doing that the wheels spun freely.

I had the problem after replacing brake pads, front & rear.

Side note: when trying to bleed the front right caliper I found the bleeder wasn't drilled all the way through so had to pull it out & drill completely through to get it to bleed.

400cc
05-10-2014, 12:59 AM
seems like using the brake line for bleeding always works best for me and take under a minute, just bleed the brake line end on the caliper