Yes, you're darned right. The last two times I overhauled calipers I
had exactly the same problem. I'm convinced that something changed --
the mold, the compound, something. Fortunately I was doing the work
on race cars and not street cars, so I just left that darned dust
cover off, rationalizing that on a race car these things are taken
apartr rather frequently, etc etc, but I pointed out to the owner
what I had done. I, too, spent several hours on it with no luck.
At 07:12 PM 9/7/2005, Larry Young wrote:
>I'm late on this thread, but I just spent an awful day and a half
>rebuilding brake calipers. I've done this on a regular basis since
>I started racing, so I do have some experience. I've always found a
>set of picks to be useful for pulling the dust shield up around the piston.
>This time it was not working, so I decided to try this great
>idea. I went to the parts store and bought a short piece of 2 1/8
>inch ID exhaust pipe. Still no success. After 4 hours and no dust
>shield installed, I gave up. Decided to install without dust
>shields. I still had trouble getting the pistons past the seals,
>even with brake fluid lubrication. Finally, everything done, but
>one caliper leaks. To make a long story longer, I'm convinced the
>rubber was either too small to start with or it had shrunk. You
>can't get the piston past the rubber if it is not pressed against
>the sides. The leak occured because the edge of the seal was
>sheared off when I pressed the piston in. I can't remember where or
>when I bought this caliper kit. I think it may have been from
>Victory British 2 or 3 years ago. It's labeled Beck-Arnley and also
>"Made in UK". Has anyone else experienced this problem?
>Larry Young
>
>Jack W. Drews wrote:
>
>>Very clever!
>>
>>At 08:56 AM 7/28/2005, triumph_marx@freenet.de wrote:
>>
>>>Hello@all,
>>>
>>>I made a little tool:
>>>I found a tube about 56mm in diameter, shortend it to 1/2" and
>>>pushed the tube into the rubber gasket so that only the outside
>>>lip is on the tube. Now it is easy to fit the inner side of the
>>>rubber to the caliper. After that just put in the the piston, that
>>>is easy done by hand. Now remove the tube, push the outer part
>>>into the groove - that's it.
>>>
>>>Done in 5 minutes/rubber.
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