and that's where things started going a little bit..... well, sideways.
Given that this is very likely Heading to Al, standard rescue fodder may not be sufficient. Sylvia mentioned she had some caliper paint that was intended for Al's car and so whilst I waited for that to arrive, I removed the calipers.
Someone had been here before.....
but soon they were off.
Next up - Free the bleed nipple! Cue the hot spanner....
If you ever thought "how hot is that hot spanner?" the Answer is "toasty"
Both calipers and carriers were then given a thorough cleaning and primed with some Derust for good measure.
And whilst I had the wire brush and derust out....
Yes, nobody is ever going to see it I know.....
And if we're doing the rear brakes, the fronts must match....
Many, many worrying things, but onwards and upwards! Caliper off hot spanner deployed.
Calipers cleaned and then de-rusted
And then we hit a potential gotcha..... Turbo calipers are unique to the Turbo. They have a vented disc, and thus, a wider caliper. It still has the same sized 54mm Piston in the caliper, but they are
VERY different to the standard ones. And whilst I could easily find rebuild kits for the calipers, they didn't include pistons. Several phone calls later, and my options were:
1. Wait until November when stock was "hopefully" arriving.
2. Have some custom pistons made.
3. Hope and pray the existing pistons are ok.
Bet you can guess which one I went with?
The upper part looks horrible, and it can do, because that just sits in the elements. Anything below the seal is what matters, and thankfully both were fine! Oh and here's how they compare to a normal 480 piston.
Still, if that upper bit is going to stick out, may as well see what we can do to help it.....
By now, the paint had arrived - Foliatec stuff. Have heard good things about it so was keen to try it out. It consists of a base coat, then a colour coat that goes over the top.
The base coat, was quite frankly, awful. It was mixed to the correct quantities but it didn't cover well and was terrible to apply! (oh and yes, the lawn needed a cut!). This is how they looked after the first coat.
I gave them a gentle flatting and decided to go with a second coat.
Better...... However, if I thought the base coat was bad, then the top coat was worse!
Like the base coat, the top coat was awful to apply, and needed numerous coats to get to some acceptable coverage. Absolutely wouldn't use again!
However, with fresh seals, they turned out nice overall!
Hands up all those that think the next step is bolting these bad boys on?
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