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<div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff;">On the brake subject. Has anyone come up with a replacement for the pistons that might be found in a modern car? Guess I'm saying that replacement Tiger pistons are fairly pricey and if the exact size, fitting some modern car could be found at auto parts stores or in salvage yards it could be a nice savings. Mark L</span></div>
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In a message dated 3/1/2018 7:39:01 PM Eastern Standard Time, tigers@autox.team.net writes:
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jim</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Put the frozen calipers in a bucket of ATF and let them soak – they will free up – pull or cut the rubber boots off first so the ATF can soak in – if you can pump some ATF behind the pistons do that to.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have painted the center sections on other discs with out problems. You just have to remember that the rotors get hot so you need heat resistant paint or caliper paint in a thin coat.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ron Fraser</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>From:</strong> Tigers [<a href="mailto:tigers-bounces@autox.team.net?">mailto:tigers-bounces@autox.team.net</a>] <strong>On Behalf Of </strong>James Armstrong via Tigers<br /><strong>Sent:</strong> Thursday, March 01, 2018 5:52 PM<br /><strong>To:</strong> <a href="mailto:tigers@autox.team.net">tigers@autox.team.net</a><br /><strong>Subject:</strong> [Tigers] Brake project, painting the discs</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; background: white;">Recently, I got two old frozen calipers that i'm trying to free up.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; background: white;">But today's question is about the discs. I want them to look nice through my Minilites but i've heard that you</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; background: white;">shouldn't paint one of the center sections. Is this true? Is the center that shouldn't be painted the concave side</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; background: white;">or the convex side? I sure would like to paint both !</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jim Armstrong</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Code 86</p>
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