Rear Caliper Removal

[codekiddie]

Mark Gray will sell you caliper bodies that are sleeved in stainless.

Sounds like a plan to me, or maybe the complete refurbished unit. By the time you've spent £35 on the caliper, £15 on the seal kit, and £20 on a SS piston, it's only another £30 to have someone else do the two rebuilds......

Not as much fun though, so just the SS caliper and parts it is then

 

[harveyp6]

The advantage with buying the complete caliper would be that that £30 would buy you good quality piston cups, ratchets and pawls if yours are dodgy.

 

[codekiddie]

The advantage with buying the complete caliper would be that that £30 would buy you good quality piston cups, ratchets and pawls if yours are dodgy.

Very true. Maybe I will have to put mine back together and do that then, as I'm not sure if Mark will want them in bits!!! I'll ring him tomorrow and ask.

 

[harveyp6]

Maybe I will have to put mine back together and do that then, as I'm not sure if Mark will want them in bits!!! I'll ring him tomorrow and ask.

I can't see that it will make any difference to him as long as everything is there. Seems a bit pointless you reassmbling them only for him to take them apart again when he gets them...

 

[classicalgreen]

found it almost impossible to work on brakes with dropping entire diff. actually dropping didd wasn't as bad as I though .though you do need a high lift jack to take weight of diff.
changed both discs and did full seal service on brakes plus new hydraulic line. all went well enough as it went through MOT. took 2 days doing it though a second time would reduce that to less than a day.
still poor handbrake function though even though passed MOT. cannot find any mechanical faults so assume its just crap handbrake system.

 

[classicalgreen]

found it almost impossible to work on brakes with dropping entire diff. actually dropping didd wasn't as bad as I though .though you do need a high lift jack to take weight of diff.
changed both discs and did full seal service on brakes plus new hydraulic line. all went well enough as it went through MOT. took 2 days doing it though a second time would reduce that to less than a day.
still poor handbrake function though even though passed MOT. cannot find any mechanical faults so assume its just crap handbrake system.

 

[harveyp6]

still poor handbrake function though even though passed MOT. cannot find any mechanical faults so assume its just crap handbrake system.

It won't be the fault of the system if it's all correctly assembled and set up.

 

[The Rovering Member]

It certainly won't. Bruiser's rear brakes were fitted & set up by someone with a great deal of knowledge & experience of the system four years ago & the handbrake is still spot on & solid. Much better than the wife's modern runabout's handbrake which was recently overhauled.

 

[testrider]

I would say that I am finding the rear brakes not anywhere near as tricky as I had thought they might be, but that would just be tempting fate :? :? :?

They're not that bad really. I can see you're a brave/confident/foolish (delete as applicable) man though, I wouldn't have the guts to strip both calipers at the same time :shock:

 

[harveyp6]

Bruiser's rear brakes were fitted & set up by someone with a great deal of knowledge & experience of the system four years ago & the handbrake is still spot on & solid.

He sounds like a handy bloke to know. You should see if you could get him to start posting on here.

 

[codekiddie]

I would say that I am finding the rear brakes not anywhere near as tricky as I had thought they might be, but that would just be tempting fate :? :? :?

They're not that bad really. I can see you're a brave/confident/foolish (delete as applicable) man though, I wouldn't have the guts to strip both calipers at the same time :shock:

Probably foolish to think I was confident enough to be brave :shock: :shock: :shock:

As it turned out, I ended up changing them for two refurbished ones, (top man Mark Gray actually rebuilt me a pair whilst I waited ) , but I always take a lot of pictures of each step of anything that I disassemble, to assist with the reassembly. I did actually reassemble the ones I had, (I wanted the experience :shock: ), and tried doing the first one without the pictures, and did the same as I have read that some others have done on here, and got the spring part upside down, and them wondered why the cover wouldn't fit :?

A quick glance at the pictures put me right, which reassured me that taking them in the first place is always a good idea.

 

[The Rovering Member]

Bruiser's rear brakes were fitted & set up by someone with a great deal of knowledge & experience of the system four years ago & the handbrake is still spot on & solid.

He sounds like a handy bloke to know. You should see if you could get him to start posting on here.

Well, I'll sound him out about it but he can be a bit of a curmudgeonly old cove. Though he mellows out once he's got a good breakfast inside of him.

 

[vaultsman]

Bruiser's rear brakes were fitted & set up by someone with a great deal of knowledge & experience of the system four years ago & the handbrake is still spot on & solid.

He sounds like a handy bloke to know. You should see if you could get him to start posting on here.

Well, I'll sound him out about it but he can be a bit of a curmudgeonly old cove. Though he mellows out once he's got a good breakfast inside of him.