Buggies Gone Wild Golf Cart Forum - View Single Post - Cause of brake clusters going bad

Fairtax4me · 10-28-2021, 06:14 PM

I'm not familiar with the brake setup on the XRT carts, so I can only speculate.
I'd say the only reason to replace anything is if it was rusted and seized. If everything was moveable, then the adjusters were just so far out of whack that they couldn't work. Proper adjustment goes a long way.
Cables fail all the time. I've had people ruin brand new cables (literally days old) just from doing stuff with the cart they shouldn't have been doing. Possible that got kinked or the rubber dust boot got damaged and it got a bunch of crud in it. A seized cable will make it very difficult to stop, since it will also prevent the brake on the other side from getting enough tension applied.

10-28-2021, 06:14 PM	#2
Fairtax4me Bonafide Nincompoop Join Date: Dec 2015 Location: Charlottesburg Va Posts: 8,987	Re: Cause of brake clusters going bad - 2016 XRT 800 I'm not familiar with the brake setup on the XRT carts, so I can only speculate. I'd say the only reason to replace anything is if it was rusted and seized. If everything was moveable, then the adjusters were just so far out of whack that they couldn't work. Proper adjustment goes a long way. Cables fail all the time. I've had people ruin brand new cables (literally days old) just from doing stuff with the cart they shouldn't have been doing. Possible that got kinked or the rubber dust boot got damaged and it got a bunch of crud in it. A seized cable will make it very difficult to stop, since it will also prevent the brake on the other side from getting enough tension applied.