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Nowt interesting to show really, calipers cleaned up with wire brush on a grinder and stripped down.

Hubs now painted red.

Apart from that I've got boxes of bits to put back on car when I get a day off.

Rebuild kits turned up

Just the cv boot left to take off, a clean up then start to put all the new parts back on.

Caliper brackets have turned up today.

Got the calipers rebuilt with new seals and pistons yesterday.

So can crack on now.

New rear wheel bearings come today for the new discs on the rear.

mk1 daz said

Caliper brackets have turned up today.

Got the calipers rebuilt with new seals and pistons yesterday.

So can crack on now.

Need pics!! Fresh calipers always look good  

Painted hubs with new bearings pressed in.

Nice   Nice to see painted and not rusty running gear!  

If I'm doing a job it's getting done right unlike the previous owners, wouldn't mind but I bought off the owners club to get a decent one lol

A little bit more progress this afternoon but it's left me only two hours to fit a bathroom….

Still got to connect the brake line but going to change all the brake fluid while it doing it.

Sorted

So the money pits build quality strikes again.

I replaced the cv joints how the previous one was fitted but it appears the previous person didn't fit the c clip or the two other washers on the driveshaft to stop the joint slopping about.

I didn't see them in the box of bits till I was trying to find another big washer for behind the cv joint but.

It's all to come back off now to fit them.

Was the calliper rebuild easy to do?

Matt

pazwaa said

Was the calliper rebuild easy to do?

Matt

Depends on your skills ha ha 

Basically take out the old piston (you can use an air line where the brake line plumbs into but I prised it out and got some grips and pulled it out.

Take out the dust seal, then the fluid seal.

Clean them up mint, the barrel and the two grooves the new seals sit in.

Fit new seals with lube supplied and then ease piston in.

You get new rubbers for the slider pins too.

I wasn't going to do it but the rebuild kit was only £30 and I'd rather build it right.

Hubs and brakes all striped back to just driveshafts today so I can fit the washers that were never fitted by the previous builder.

That has taken about an inch of sideways movement from the cv joint sliding up the driveshaft.

So front still needs.

Cv joint washer buying
Brake lines connecting
Horn earth connecting
Adjust steering rack to get tracking somat like before going for tracking as it's like duck feet!
Upper strut brace to go back on

mk1 daz said

pazwaa said

Was the calliper rebuild easy to do?

Matt

Depends on your skills ha ha 

Basically take out the old piston (you can use an air line where the brake line plumbs into but I prised it out and got some grips and pulled it out.

Take out the dust seal, then the fluid seal.

Clean them up mint, the barrel and the two grooves the new seals sit in.

Fit new seals with lube supplied and then ease piston in.

You get new rubbers for the slider pins too.

I wasn't going to do it but the rebuild kit was only £30 and I'd rather build it right.

Thanks for the info, doesn't seem too bad. Do you need any special tools to get the pistons back in?

pazwaa said

mk1 daz said

pazwaa said

Was the calliper rebuild easy to do?

Matt

Depends on your skills ha ha 

Basically take out the old piston (you can use an air line where the brake line plumbs into but I prised it out and got some grips and pulled it out.

Take out the dust seal, then the fluid seal.

Clean them up mint, the barrel and the two grooves the new seals sit in.

Fit new seals with lube supplied and then ease piston in.

You get new rubbers for the slider pins too.

I wasn't going to do it but the rebuild kit was only £30 and I'd rather build it right.

Thanks for the info, doesn't seem too bad. Do you need any special tools to get the pistons back in?

No it will slide back in easy just make sure it's square or it won't push in.

Taken a rear wheel off to have a look at the back setup and ended up stripping the whole lot off.

Need to press new wheel bearings into the new discs, then paint and refurb the mk4 callipers. New handbrake cables and brake lines to fit too.