front caliper agro

reet been tatting with me brakes over the last few nights, done both rear drums , new shoes and cylinders, and some new pipes i made up , done both front disks, no probs, new bearings on hubs, set end float with shims ready to go,
got old pads out of one side, pistons in caliper were shiny , moved by hand, lurvely , new pads , all back together,

right same for other side, got to getting the pads out of the caliper front one were ok ish then the back one of the pair were stuck, after a lot of **** an agro i got one of the two pistons moving, cleaned it up, now its free, the second of the pistons is stuck right in and wont move?

had the bar in there, g-cramp, mole grips, slip jaw grips, lump of wood and the hammer, bit of lube round it, let it soak, then the clamp agin, no ****in joy ! any one any better ideas?

clamp the mobile piston, then get the airline in the bleed nipple hole - blast it out.

new calliper

Treworgey 90 said:

clamp the mobile piston, then get the airline in the bleed nipple hole - blast it out.

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thats what ah thort as i finished tonight, will try in the mornin, nawt to lose

G-man said:

new calliper

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er......... not just yet , migh only need a quick strip and new seal

TRY puttin all the pads in bar the piston thats stuck ,then press the brake pedal steadily until the piston comes out,when its out clean n polish it ,get it movin keep fingers crossed,it usually works on my classic best o luck........dave

Exactly same thing happened to me. Trewey is spot on. My local mechanic got stuck in with the airline and blasted it out. Went for a new caliper rather than a rebuild - cheaper in my case as I hadn't time to do and the mechanic had and his time is money!

right, back shoes were shagged , think i got me moneys worth out of them



so put some nice new ones on



disks were shagged too,



so on went some new uns



had to splin the calipers in the end to get the seized pistons out



but turned out they were beyond repair, even fer me



so ended up with these instead



simples, just got to bleed them tomorrow and top up the fluid

card board or pipe clamps stop damage to brake hoses

Nice one mate
Ah take it ye've replaced that dodgy lookin' pipe anaw then?

pipe clamps / mole grips !

yeah am in the process of makin a new system up in copper buster, just not ready to put it all on yet , got chassis to spray first ! one day

90truckcab said:

pipe clamps / mole grips !

yeah am in the process of makin a new system up in copper buster, just not ready to put it all on yet , got chassis to spray first ! one day

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It's just that when ye said ye were goin' tae bleed it tomorrow, ah hoped ye had the pipes done mate... otherwise it'd be a waste of time if the old ones might be a bit dodgy

nah, they will go on in a few weeks, calipers need to come off again, and back axle needs droppin fer some welding so no worries, they old pipes are in quite good nick mate honest !

bit of work dunt bother me really , keeps yer goin,