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The Brake Service Pack
Measure the pads, identify the shoes, find out why it drags, and keep the record. Four sheets with true-size instruments throughout.
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TSP-PK-06 · version v1.0 · September 2026. Opens in your browser's PDF viewer, where you can print directly.
The sheets inside this pack
Every one is also available on its own, free. The pack exists so you can print once rather than 4 times.
The problem it solves
Brakes are the system where guessing is least acceptable and where these machines are worst served. There is no reliable catalogue matching models to pads, sellers themselves warn that look-alike pads differ by millimetres, and a shoe's diameter cannot be measured with a rule at all.
Everything in this pack is a physical instrument or a record, because that is what brake work on these machines actually needs. A pad pushed into a printed corner reads its own height and width off two true-size scales. A shoe laid on printed arcs identifies its drum diameter — a measurement you genuinely cannot take with a rule, because you cannot get one across a curve.
The dragging sheet is here because a binding brake is the quietest expensive fault these machines have. It does not squeal or fail; it makes the machine slow and hot at one wheel, which gets blamed on the engine.
And the service record exists because whatever you work out about which pads fit will otherwise have to be worked out again in two years, from memory, with the old ones long since binned.
The mistakes this sheet exists to prevent
- Matching a pad against a listing photograph, which flattens the bend and hides the millimetres.
- Trying to measure a brake shoe's diameter with a rule across its open side.
- Replacing pads without measuring the disc, which wears too.
- Printing this at "fit to page", which shrinks every true-size scale by about six per cent.
- Ignoring a wheel that will not spin freely, which is a dragging brake making heat.
Who it is for
- Anyone servicing brakes on a machine no catalogue covers
- Owners choosing between several near-identical pad listings
- Anyone whose machine feels slow with no engine fault found
What is on it
- The pad measuring board: true-size scales meeting at a corner
- The shoe arc template, for a diameter you cannot measure with a rule
- The dragging diagnostic, split by brake type
- A brake service record with the measurements taken each time
How to use it
- 01Print at actual size and check a calibration rule with a steel rule before measuring anything.
- 02Do the free-spin test first if anything feels slow — it costs nothing and finds a lot.
- 03Measure the old pads or shoes before they go in the bin.
- 04Keep the service record with the machine.
Use it with the registry
Other sheets you may want
- Brake pad measuring board — read all four dimensions at oncePush the pad into the corner and read all four dimensions off the page. Built because look-alike pads differ by millimetres and no photograph shows it.
- Brake shoe arc template — which drum size do you have?True-size arcs at the two drum diameters the owner community reports. Lay the shoe on the page and see which one it belongs to.
- Scooter brakes dragging or bindingA wheel that will not spin freely costs speed and fuel and makes heat. Six causes, each ending at something you can feel or see.
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