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alright took a mountain bike out today and making a break starting good about two miles up the trail the brakes every time I press the back brake it completely does nothing so I'm going to take off the back caliper right here and see what's on the inside it was adjusted fine when I started and it was tight everything worked great but now when I pull on the back brake it pulls tight but the brakes actually don't do anything so I'm gonna check out the brake pads and see what needs to happen so this right here is the caliper and I'm going to start off with the five allen wrench and loosen up this bolt so the cable will slip out and then each of these two bolts right here are the same size I'm just going to break those loose same size allen wrench there we go now the caliper is out so this part right here I'm screws into the back of the caliper right there this is the back side of the pad it looks like there's enough pad on there what I think is what happened is that the pad had worn down just enough and I'll show you the padded one down just enough so that it wasn't rubbing on the pad anymore right there where the Allen wrenches it was rubbing on the sidewall of the caliper which would have meant that it was you know the kathas slick surface of the caliper instead of the grippy surface of the brake pad to rub against so I can tighten that a little by little and kind of stick it farther into the caliper again so I'll show ya so now it's sticking farther in obviously I don't want it in that far I'll just kind of showing you how you can adjust either side and then with the other side as you pull that that's what's actually pulled by the cable you can see them touch right there and so I can adjust the cable side of it much easier than this other side so that's what was wrong with this that's how you adjust the calipers on your mountain bike if you do need new brake pads for your caliper you can finals on Amazon and I'll link them for you so you can replace the brake pads and these things just take a look in the video description below if you need those or just you know new calipers all together when you're repositioning the brake line just take the bolt through the brake line goes on this side of the bolt and then you stick the nut on and then if you spin this bolt a little bit with the allen wrench then that will just go on right by itself so the back of the caliper can be adjusted from all it's still mounted at the bike as well the only reason you have to take it off is just a double check to make sure the pads you know are what you think they are if they're worn down enough to where you need to adjust that if you have any questions make sure to leave in the comments don't forget to like this video if it helped you and don't forget to subscribe thanks