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Post by nsgnomad on Jan 14, 2023 23:08:33 GMT 10
JR, you have successfully diagnosed my problem, and thank you for the video. I did earlier find a different but similar video showing how the wind-back tool worked. The one I sound a few days ago did not show the rotation of the piston as it wound back and I incorrectly assumed it was merely pushing it back by the force of the screw.
Unfortunately, I do not have one of those tools, but I am in the midst of cobbling/fabricating something that will do the job. Now that I know how it is done, I will get there.
As the saying goes, many hands make light work, and 2 (or 3) heads are better than 1, so thank you both for your help. Cheers.
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Post by nsgnomad on Jan 15, 2023 18:39:44 GMT 10
Well, the job is almost complete, except for bleeding the brakes because I ran out of brake fluid.
It seems I am a better Tinker than a Cobbler. My attempt at cobbling something up to make a retracting tool was not successful. It finished up being too high for the space available between the piston and the frame of the caliper. However, now knowing the process, I had another go at manually pushing down on the piston while I rotated it, clockwise. After maintaining about 30kg force while I rotated it about 1 and 1/2 turns it began to retract. About another 3 turns and it had fully retracted. 😀
That was the right hand side. The left side was marginally easier, but I guess I was buoyed by my success on the right. Worth noting that the rotation for the left caliper piston to retract was also clockwise. I had half expected it to be anticlockwise.
This is certainly a relief for me. I mentioned in an earlier post I was trying to source replacement calipers. I thought I had found some about 60 km away on the other side of Brisbane. Apart from the distance I had to travel, I then had to remove them from the vehicle myself. It wasn't until after I had cleaned them up, given them a coat of paint to tidy them up, and went to fit them to my car, that I discovered they were not the right ones. They looked identical, but the pads were positioned further away from the disc centre. Obviously for a larger diameter disc rotor. 😡 I had not picked that up when I removed them. Grrrr. I hope I can take them back for a refund.
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Post by Old Techo on Jan 15, 2023 19:04:35 GMT 10
Well done Roger
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Post by jr on Jan 15, 2023 21:30:33 GMT 10
Yes good result Roger. Those ‘B’ French do things their way.
JR
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