I should probably wait to take my calipers apart before asking this question, but I thought I'd ask now before the discussion goes stale. I hope this isn't a dumb question.... If the pistons are stuc
Had a similar problem with my calipers on my TR6 that had been garaged for 25 years. I was able to get the pistons out of the calipers with great difficulty and was surprised to see good looking cyli
The bore of the caliper is actually unimportant. Unlike all the other hydraulic cylinders, the sealing surface of the caliper is on the piston, which can be replaced separately. And the groove that
I did mine the old fashioned way. Elbow grease. I used a wire wheel for the outside. But the wire wheel wouldn't get everywhere so I scraped with a small flat blade screwdriver, used emery cloth, sa
FWIW, the O-ring for between the 2 halves of the brake calipers is still available from Moss and TRF. I got mine from TRF. It's not listed in their catalog , but they had them in stock as of the end
Thanks Randall, I reread Nelson's write up at Buckeye, and it washes with what you said. The interior walls of the cylinder don't make much difference because they only hold the seals. It's the pisto
In a nutshell, the bolt is designed to permanently distort when it is installed; and thus should be replaced every time it's removed. Kind of like the pinion spacer in the late TR6 diff. Ok, I didn'
Your statement..... followed by... Is your implication that Nelson was well aware of the faulty information he was providing and that he could be sued for dispensing such faulty information??? You'll
I don't think there was any implication that the info was faulty. Nelson just went places that are probably okay for most list members to tackle on their own. Making it available to the general publ
Sorry the world isn't quite as clear-cut as you'd like it to be. I like to encourage people to think on their own rather than having everything spoon-fed to them ... but if you can't handle it, feel
Hi Jeff, I was aware of why Nelson thought he should remove the information. My question was not what Nelson thought, it was what Randall meant by his statements. Don Malling
Hi Randall, I guess you never read his article on restoring convertible tops. He removed that one too. By your reasoning (Opps "little innuendoes") he must have been worried about that one as well. I
That's your "reasoning", not mine. Good ! Hmmm, let's see, the people who make the calipers say this is a bad idea. They no doubt had a professional brake engineer say that. No other professional br