4th gen rear calipers

Post by **Merlin** » Mon Jun 24, 2013 4:54 pm

punisher1997 wrote:leaking brake fluid

From where?

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Mon Jun 24, 2013 9:40 pm

I'm just fed up cleaning them down every year just to get an MOT pass, I think the adjustment is knackered on them because the handbrake comes up so high (or the cables have stretched, but I don't think that's what's happened) and they don't work as well as the JDM, either even after the fluid was changed.

They've had a good run, they're just old and their time is up...

Post by **Gayno** » Mon Jun 24, 2013 9:49 pm

Have you fully stripped them down, cleaned the parts, replaced seals, regreased? Or just a quick clean and done?

We did a full strip down on all 4 of my calipers over 2 and a half years ago, replaced all seals, and they are still going strong. You know what they say, do a job right, do it once!

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Mon Jun 24, 2013 10:26 pm

Yep they've just had the quick brush up each year.
I just haven't got the time to overhaul them myself (new job in South London is taking me out of the house at half 6 and don't get back till 8

plus I've still got loads of other crap to do on the house and bits to put on the JDM and Activa...)

I've still got the ATR calipers on the front of the JDM to overhaul as well and I need to the UKDM back on the road (racking up far too many miles on the JDM atm) so it's a time/expediency thing really.