Xt cantilever missing parts

[sefton1275gt]

Seems I'm missing 3 of these little covers

I'm guessing it's a part that's commonly missing and not widely available?

 

[ishaw]

They are quite useful iirc, they sit over the boss and help hold the brakes on (I think), had some LX brakes where they broke and I seem to recall at some point realising I could slide the brakes off over the bolt on the rear. It was many years ago.

You could find some, I think there are repro ones in metal sold for the m900 brakes.

 

[wesmamyke]

It's basically just a dust cover, and they almost always crack on LX and XT. I keep wondering if someone will 3D print some.

The brakes function fine without them, but it leaves a weird lip sticking out. Somewhere I have an entire bin of XT/LX brakes with broken/missing caps. Even the ones that look good have a little hairline crack in the plastic.

The XTR cone washer things are different and are not attached to the brake, they came as part of the Ti mounting bolt kit I think.

 

[SantasLoneCruzer]

They are quite useful iirc, they sit over the boss and help hold the brakes on (I think), had some LX brakes where they broke and I seem to recall at some point realising I could slide the brakes off over the bolt on the rear. It was many years ago.

You could find some, I think there are repro ones in metal sold for the m900 brakes.

I tried searching for these, couldn’t find any, so you have a link?

 

[d8mok]

M900 ones sit flush. As the 737 ones have the lip.

 

[sam_white]

Join the club. I've got a missing one and at least one other with a crack. M737 brakes on the Muddy Fox.

 

[SantasLoneCruzer]

Blimmey, back in my day as an apprentice, I could have smashed out a few hundred of these from Nylon on my Citizen B12 lathe…..once programmed, that’s about 1/2hrs work…..! It would have been FOC too, just cover postage.