So, today’s recipe is ‘au gratin brake calliper et bracket in matt black sauce’. Ingredients; 4 x calliper4 x bracket1 x small painting brush1 x Halfords Very High Temperature (VHT) Engine Enamel Paint Matt BlackPaint CleanerBrake CleanerPaper TowelGas BBQ setGlove As the weather was very good with not much wind, perfect for marinating the calliper and bracket under the sun before ...
Updated 05-07-2011 at 07:52 AM by Kaz-kzukNA1
Yes, I’m still cleaning the callipers and brackets….. After going through many battery charging moments, finally the callipers are polished and ready to be soaked in the cleaning solution. I should have taken the ‘before’ photo to show the state of the callipers but they were really dirty with the build up of so many different debris and rust. ...
Had lots of fun releasing the brake hose from the pipe fitting. So much rust and corrosion but thanks to the Acetone-ATF mixture, managed to release them at the end.... I don’t think the owner would be happy to re-use these brake hose… Thank you to Martin at Goodridge Exeter office. ...
Once again, time to clean the parts… So much brake dust and the grease was already dried out that the cleaner fluid immediately got dirty… During the Health Check, informed the owner that the master cyl looked to be leaking. And yes indeed, it was leaking quite a lot… ...
Updated 01-07-2011 at 01:28 PM by Kaz-kzukNA1
Again, some of the pads were seized inside the bracket. At the Rear, not only the Inner pads were seized to the bracket but also installed upside down that the wear indicator was at the lower side when it should be at the upper side. I will keep the orientation as it is although it is wrong as it will affect the brake performance after the service for a while if I swap ...
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