no sticking piston here .. 'tis the calliper guide pins ..
they seem ok .. but in comparison to the offside c.g.pins .. they're a bit stiff
haven't bought discs yet .. will wait 'till better weather .. spring / summer ..
might go ahead then and strip / rebuild / paint .. both callipers
debating whether to get drilled - vented discs .. but i think there be a previous thread on that
and the conclusion was that the regular discs work fine on the hippo1 .. so i don't know ..
will research .. i do fancy some terrafirma drilled vented jobs .. but could be a waste of ££££
nice
.. however .. being in a hurry to fix things ..i took a chance 'n picked up the only calliper-piston tool that halfords had ..
the store being close to the LR place where i bought the pads
soon realised .. via a youtube demo .. that it were the wrong type for the hippo's calliper piston
(it be a calliper-piston 'rewind' tool) however i stuck a honey jar metal lid between the tool and piston
and that worked fine .. though it killed the lid .. will have to stock up on honey jars ready for next pad replacement
.. or buy a suitable clamp like the one in the link ..( or modify the rewind tool )
screwdriver wouldn't have worked well at all .. well .. maybe if the bleed nipple were opened ..
wanted to try retracting the piston without having to do that ..
( 'n what clamp type tools i have at home .. would not have worked either )
guess the mot tester were in a hurry .. or something ..
inner pad .. nearside calliper .. were down to bare metal on the top 1" 'n a half ..
weird thing is that .. at the start the sound it made were like plastic rubbing on something ..
and it were intermitent .. at very first thought it might be the plastic wheel-arch-inner-shielding
as one bit ain't sitting right on the sump guard frame ..
then the sound occured more and more .. then aquired a metalic ring to it ..
( crap caught in disc-stoneguard i thought ) ..
only when i took the wheel off for a good look around .. were the sound source obvious ..
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anyhows .. this morning replaced the pads on Both ( @freelanderoig ;-) callipers ..
job went smoothly .. gave all the bits a good clean ..
took hippo 'n dog for a 50 mile drive .. 'n shortish walk for dog ..
brake pedal now be harder .. no sound at all from brakes .. not even a squeak
cheers all for tips 'n advice ..
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