Overhauled the rear brakes.

[D4B]

NSR rear slider freed off, but no way would that have been possible with the caliper ON the car....

Big Vice was needed !

Pleased to report that my 20 year old Gunsons Easy Bleed worked a treat

Thanks for all the help & advice on here.

Steve

[gumby6371]

I'll be doing my handbrake cables at the weekend and my backplates are a bit ropey so I was wondering how you did yours DDD?
On the car or off?

[GingerMagic]

If you want to remove the backplates you need to remove the hub/bearing first, so unless your hubs are shot I would try to fix them in situ....

[gumby6371]

I suspected as much, clean up and paint on the car it is then!

Just had a look on Halfords web site for some caliper paint - red, blue or yellow - WTF is wrong with black? we're not all 17 years old

[GingerMagic]

I got my Kawasaki Green from eBay, but there are many colours available in both brush on or air-arsehole.

Here is the link; http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/270908604320? ... EBIDX%3AIT

[piglet]

Is this oneupmanship for bits of the car that can't be seen anyway?

If I ever change my backing plates I'm going for C/F effect hydrographic printing
http://www.diamondalloys.co.uk/news/hyd ... or-wheels/
Beat that

[gumby6371]

Now there's an idea! swanky carbon fibre wrap would dazzle the MoT inspector so much he wouldn't notice anything

On the other hand when I checked service box and found replacement back plates require a small mortgage I thought some wire brushing and a £10 pot of paint was the way to go.

[dirtydirtydiesel]

I'll be doing my handbrake cables at the weekend and my backplates are a bit ropey so I was wondering how you did yours DDD?
On the car or off?

gumby,
Sorry for the late reply I had computer probs , anyhow as ginger said clean up as best you can & paint in situ.
If it help's mine were a mess, I wire brushed them with the electric dill & used Dinatroll rust treatment RC800 then fibre glass to repair the holes & trusty black smoothrite for the finishing coat .
ps I have used smoothrite on calipers with great success & no problems, so you could try some of that in black .
All the best bud DDD.

[steve_earwig]

fibre glass

Umm, don't brakes tend to get a little warm?

[gumby6371]

New handbrake cable purchased, dug through shed and found brush attachments for my drill just need the paint now.
My backplates only have surface rust as far as I can tell so I won't need any filler, just brush, treat the rust and paint.

The calipers will probably just get a wire brush as it's not the looks I'm bothered about just the corrosion.

[dirtydirtydiesel]

Bump !