rear brakes keep freezing!!

[drkilldrmz]

It's been damn cold here. Like 8 degrees for a week. Hopped on the 200s after putting the tire chains on..(what a pita) and drove it next door. Had to really give the brakes hell, and then they just stuck frozen. Think a replacement cable would solve this? or is it internal in the rears. Thanks in advance..

[KASEY]

if its 8 degrees i would say any moisture you create is just refreezing ,,, you might have to tear them apart and grease the shaft and all related parts to keep the moisture out,,,,

[Erics350x]

soak the cable in lube over night

[chris200x]

My advice to you... Wait for warmer weather! :lol: :beer

Its kinda funny I found this post. we tried (twice) to ride today... it was about 11 degress here. :cool:

First time out.. not 20 yards from the trail head, my buddy flips his quad over backwards on him going through a deep puddle. Everything (including him, lol) froze almost instantly. :lol: :w00t:

Towing him back to the house is when I found out my brakes were froze. :rolleyes:

After thawing everything out and a change of clothes (and quite a few cocktails to warm the belly) we finally got out but couldn't really get too far. there's a thin crust of ice ontop of the snow that you'd break through and just spin. kinda sucked.. but we still had a blast! :Bounce

[oscarmayer]

sweet!!!!

yea i bet you got moisture int he cables and brakes. i'd take the lines off liek Eric said and soak them in thin oil over night. also take the enture rear brake assembly off, spray the pas off with "brake cleaner" NOT "carb cleaner (has small amont of oil in it)". and let the rest of it soak in oil too. then the next day out it together with plenty of gresh greese and jsut "whipe the thin oil it soaked in off. don't use cleaners on it. take some brake cleaner speay it on a thick papertowel (clean one) and whipe the inside of the drum off by hand only to get the oil off. the assmble and ride. it shoudl be fine then. (cold weather conditioning is important)