I always split them and yes the seals are available. It is so much easier to
get them clean this way. I end up rebuilding rusty old cores and I am always
chasing threads and media blasting the calipers. I wouldn't trust air alone to
remove all that crud without splitting them.
BPNW used to sell nitrided pucks and they are a lot cheaper then the SS
versions. In the few years of use I have found them to work fine and resist
rust. Then again I bleed the brakes a lot so the moisture isn't there.
Bob Kramer
rkramer3@austin.rr.com
---- EDWARD BARNARD <edwardbarnard@prodigy.net> wrote:
> Yes, they can be rebuilt. The "O" rings are available from Moss for a small
> amount...pick-up a few. They are a weird, square cross sectional ring. The
> reason Moss and the shop manual says they shouldn't be opened is because there
> doesn't appear to be any recorded torque for the four bolts. Use good practice
> in torqueing these...I don't remember what diameter they are but torque them
> to the appropriate spec for that diameter bolt.
> -Ed-
>
>
> On Wednesday, August
> 27, 2014 6:18 AM, Michael Moore <mmoore@mtmcpafirm.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> After my
> weekend at Grattan I noticed my Girling caliper was weaping a little
> fluid out
> of top center.
>
> Can these be rebuilt? Moss says NO in their catalog.
>
> I took
> it apart and it is a simple O-ring that needs replaced.
>
>
>
> Thanks
> Mike
>
> 62
> TR4, Race car
> 63 TR4, Street car
>
> Mike & Becky Moore
> 6050 Ruhl Road
> Fairview,
> PA 16415
>
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