[Fot] Caliper Rebuild

[rkramer3 at austin.rr.com]

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 at austin.rr.com

---- EDWARD BARNARD <edwardbarnard at 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 at 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
> 
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