Learning how to fix broken a brake in a tricycle

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Hi guys, it's my first time in this community, so I felt I should put everyone through how we fixed a bad brake on a tricycle. It was fun on how it went through.
First of all, two things might be the reason why brakes fail in a tricycle. Either that the brake lining is bad or the brake master is faulty.

The first thing I did was to check the brake pad(lining) if it's in a good condition. So I lose the tire and opened the hub to check the brake pads behold it was not aligned, therefore, I changed it.

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I changed the brake pads on the three wheels. Unfortunately, the brake did not work. So I checked if hydraulic fluid passes through to the pad area, behold it wasn't so I presume that the fault would be from the brake master.
I lose the brake master from it based, I washed all the parts thoroughly with soup because of dirt to clean up any blockades.

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I noticed that the kit within the brake was weak and couldn't compress and pushed the hydraulic fluid to the brake lining area. I replaced the new kit and coupled it back to

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At last, the brake worked perfectly fine. It took me about 3 hours to get this done

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I'm very delighted to be able to get it right.



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This would be better placed in the Hive Motors community

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