Rear brake foot lever help required

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Davo

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I am about to send all my bright bits off to the chromer but note the is a bronze bush in the rear brake lever pivot and it is a pretty tight fit, ie not moving with gentle pressure.

Is it necessary to remove it pre chroming? If so how - I don't want to just whack at it if all I am going to do is destroy it.

Thanks in advance

Dave
 
Hi Davo,

I had the very same discussion yesterday as I need to replace the bush in my RGS gear lever. The bush is an 'off the shelf' item from bearing suppliers.
It can be pushed out - find a socket that snugly fits the internal diameter of the lever pivot and will face-up against the bush; use a bigger socket on the other end of the lever pivot and clamp the whole lot in a vice; gradually tighten up the vice and the smaller socket will push the bush out into the larger socket. Voila!
I've yet to try it, so can't speak from first-hand experience, but this is how it was explained to me. Let us know how you get on  :D

HTH,
Alan :)
 
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