Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer

As I left enough time for the paint to cure, time to refurbish the callipers.

Most of the parts for the Front calliper overhaul process.


Depending on what greases being used, how and where they are applied, it will make quite big difference over the time in preventing the corrosion to the parts.


These are the know-how that are not on the manual. ...

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Brake

So, today’s recipe is ‘au gratin brake calliper et bracket in matt black sauce’.

Ingredients;

• 4 x calliper
• 4 x bracket
• 1 x small painting brush
• 1 x Halfords Very High Temperature (VHT) Engine Enamel Paint Matt Black
• Paint Cleaner
• Brake Cleaner
• Paper Towel
• Gas BBQ set
• Glove

As the weather was very good with not much wind, perfect for marinating the calliper and bracket under the sun before ...

Updated 05-07-2011 at 07:52 AM by Kaz-kzukNA1

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Brake

Yes, I’m still cleaning the callipers and brackets…..

After going through many battery charging moments, finally the callipers are polished and ready to be soaked in the cleaning solution.


I should have taken the ‘before’ photo to show the state of the callipers but they were really dirty with the build up of so many different debris and rust.



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Brake

Had lots of fun releasing the brake hose from the pipe fitting.


So much rust and corrosion but thanks to the Acetone-ATF mixture, managed to release them at the end....

I don’t think the owner would be happy to re-use these brake hose…


Thank you to Martin at Goodridge Exeter office.
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Brake

Once again, time to clean the parts… So much brake dust and the grease was already dried out that the cleaner fluid immediately got dirty…

During the Health Check, informed the owner that the master cyl looked to be leaking.

And yes indeed, it was leaking quite a lot…

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Updated 01-07-2011 at 01:28 PM by Kaz-kzukNA1

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Brake