Post #357
I have painted the calipers with some high temperature paint.
It said you had to bake them at 160 degrees so, as Mrs Tea was away for the day...
I got a seal kit, slider kit, new pistons and some stainless bleed screws.
I thought it would be a good idea to spray some brake cleaner down the ports before I assembled them, just to be sure they were clean.
Unfortunately, this made my hands go silver.
s**te paint.
I have ordered some high temp lacquer to try to resurrect them.
If that doesn't work I'll have to strip them and start again.
I had some of those alloy tensioner and idler pulleys but, disappointingly, the bearings became noisy after less than four thousand miles.
I bought some SKF replacements.
Mrs tea still wasn't back yet, so I slung the pulleys in the Rayburn,
and the bearings in the freezer.
They dropped straight in no messing with the temperature difference.
Once cooled, I could reassemble them onto the previously cleaned jobbies.
Once I run out of bits to fanny about with, I might think about bolting some of them onto the car.
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