I rounded off the bottom caliper bolt doing the brakes. Had to get the grinder out and cut the fecker. Turns out the calipers were banjaxxed anyway, so no real harm done.
Heat the ****ers. Only way to get them out without a grinder.
I rounded off the bottom caliper bolt doing the brakes. Had to get the grinder out and cut the fecker. Turns out the calipers were banjaxxed anyway, so no real harm done.
Little spring..✓
Rods that don't go back on..✓
The world's tinyest microswitches..✓
No room to work in the door..✓
Somebody been in there before me and buggered up the handle clips..✓
And my soldering skills are not what I thought..✓
After reading RRDT's woes I bought new guide pins anyway. So I just sliced straight through where the pin touches the caliper.Heat the ****ers. Only way to get them out without a grinder.
Pins actually came out fairly easily. If it hadn't been for that one bolt it would have been a doddle.Heat from drilling did as much as the actual drilling. To keep going while it was red hot was extremely beneficial
Hubs weren't too bad, wire brush cleaned off what was there. You saw the state of the calipers though. When the new ones arrive I'll put the carriers in the vice and hit them with the wire brush in the drill.Same here one pin.
Where’s the pics of your rusted up hubs en? Mine were terrible but few coats of atf and thorough pecking with an nammer and chisel they came up good. Make sure your CV boots are on tidy while you are there
I haven't even looked at the rears. One disaster at a time, tyvm.The brakes on mine were shocking..
One of the rear pads was worn to such excess it fell out when i was driving home..
should of taken that as a omen..
Weirdly the shíttest part of the car "engine" is the best working bit of the entire thing!!
Odd
I haven't even looked at the rears. One disaster at a time, tyvm.
Hubs weren't too bad, wire brush cleaned off what was there. You saw the state of the calipers though. When the new ones arrive I'll put the carriers in the vice and hit them with the wire brush in the drill.
It will be fine until the BECM decides enough is enough.Don't want even think about going back in there..!! Let the F###### lock itself all day long.
psss - my doozle never did this, but don't tell anyone..
SpaceX doing the delivery then ? (location, space just in case anybody wonders what I`m on about)Latch cover fell off the centre console yesterday. Ordered some black pu adhesive to glue the latch cover, wing mirror, lower wing ,tailgate trim and bit of window rubber back on.
Yup. That’s a bugger of a job.Broke me today.. Tried to refurbish my own drivers door latch. Forget that idea, think I may have reached my limit there. Witchcraft..!!!
Then three hours to get the B####### back in and it's still doing it.
Broken.. me.
Funny the way some sockets fit perfectly and some don’t.I rounded off the bottom caliper bolt doing the brakes. Had to get the grinder out and cut the fecker. Turns out the calipers were banjaxxed anyway, so no real harm done.
Specially T55s
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