This is a Hayes El Camino brake, and I'm going to install it on this bike. Now you might notice, first of all it's always important to have a spacer between the pads at any time. When you don't have a router between the pads, because then if you squeeze the lever, you can push the pistons out too far.
As you can see, there's a problem if you go to install this on the bike, because the Hayes system is a post-mount system. The bolts that mount the brake go radially in toward the frame or the fork. So this is an international standard mount and the holes are drilled transversely. So you need an adapter. This is a Hayes adapter. There are a number of different ones available. This one, it is going to go this way.
So first you can install it either way. Usually, what's going to happen, is the brake is going to come with an adapter, since most bikes and most fork anymore have the international standard mount front and rear that you will find that the adapter is already mounted onto the brake, but in this case, it's not.
So you go ahead and install it loosely, and there is definitely an up or down to these adapters. In this case, it actually stays up there, and you want to make sure that that is up, but if you make a mistake off, and it will be fairly obvious when you go to put it on.
Don't tighten these bolts down too tightly, at least the first tightening. Then these bolts you can tighten the mounting bolts, and on from the side, you can tighten pretty tight. Now with this type of a system that's Hayes post-mount, because you're going to make the adjustments from these bolts, but these ones you want to leave.
Go ahead and snug it up until it touches, and then back it off so that the caliper is free to move, so that then when you put the wheel in, then you can readjust everything. So we'll install the wheel now. Again, you want to slide the router up in between the pads.
Now as you can see the router is rubbing, router is free to move, so go ahead and just for the time being we'll attach it to the handlebar. Now we pull on the lever, and the brake is free to move as you can see. So we'll pull on the lever, and when we pull on it, it sort of puts the brake into position. We can tighten it a little more, and then at this point, we want to check and see. Look at that, so that rear brake is ready to go.
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