Saturday, March 9, 2013

Brake Re-Do Part 4

All finished and back on the car. Unfortunately they make everything else look a bit crap.



At least I'm confident the car will stop now.

Brake Re-Do Part 3

After a sweaty day in a hot tin shed garage, the calipers were rebuilt.
The shop had run out of black caliper paint so I guess the next best colour was a Hemi Orange. . . . . . Wouldn't you?


 

Brake Re-Do Part 2

All the internal working parts were replaced with new. New piston, rubbers, pins and of course the pads

 

Brake Re-Do

After fixing up the suspension in the front end, I was still thinking about the brake calipers. I'd been a bit unsure about them since buying the car. When I originally got the car home and went through all the bits and pieces, there was a new set of brake pads in an ice cream container. I tried to change them over but with no luck. When the new pads were in, the calipers wouldn't slide over the disc. I thought they were the wrong pads.

After fixing the front end, I had another go. I used a disc brake spreader to push the piston back as far as it would go. Calipers still wouldn't go on. I double checked the pads and they fitted perfectly in the calipers. They just wouldn't open up enough to go over the rotor.

Time for a brake rebuild.

The calipers came off with the intent of a full strip down, clean up and rebuild.



The calipers had definitely seen better days. Now it was time to strip them down.

This lovely mess appears to be the reason for the calipers not wanting to move back any further. This was cleaned out to reveal pretty good internals. I gave them a light sand with 400grit wet and dry with WD40 and they came up pretty good. I cleaned all the gunk and grease off the calipers, went over them the wire wheel and the hard to reach bits got the sand blaster.