FLYPOGGER
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Brake pads are low. Bought a set for £20.
Odd, I've no qualms about dismantling calipers on motorbikes, changing pads is so simple.
Yet I fret about doing it on the car.
Jacking up a 32 year old car
Well that went OK, couldn't use my trolley jack, as the car is lowered.
Rear wheel off, blocks of wood under car.
WD40 sprayed on the pins. A few whacks with a hammer and pin punch, out they came. Outside pad came out with a tug and some wiggling with screwdriver.
Inside pad is a bit thicker than the outside. This one was reluctant to come out
Carefully placed WD40, tugging with various shapes of pliers, ah it's out... Bugger, left the pad being.
More WD40, levering and tugging with screwdriver and thin nosed pliers, it's out.
Ah, genuine Merc. pads. Hmm, car has done about 68,000 miles. Are they the original pads?
Try to fit inside pad, bugger, pins won't go through, as pads won't go far enough into caliper.
I laid the new ones on top of the old... new ones are several m/m longer. Damn
I ponder on my pain, looking at the disc, there is a ridge where the discs are old, I file a chamfer on the offending area of the pads. Try again, Success, other side I did the same. Copper greased the pins, job done.
Forget the anti rattle shim.
Not much room to swing a hammer to fully seat the pins, and nearby parts impede access, but, got there in the end.
Wheel back on sorted. Decided to do the other side another day. From past experience, I don't want to push my luck with a history of backache.
There's life in this pensioner yet
Odd, I've no qualms about dismantling calipers on motorbikes, changing pads is so simple.
Yet I fret about doing it on the car.
Jacking up a 32 year old car
Well that went OK, couldn't use my trolley jack, as the car is lowered. Rear wheel off, blocks of wood under car.
WD40 sprayed on the pins. A few whacks with a hammer and pin punch, out they came. Outside pad came out with a tug and some wiggling with screwdriver.
Inside pad is a bit thicker than the outside. This one was reluctant to come out
Carefully placed WD40, tugging with various shapes of pliers, ah it's out... Bugger, left the pad being.
More WD40, levering and tugging with screwdriver and thin nosed pliers, it's out.
Ah, genuine Merc. pads. Hmm, car has done about 68,000 miles. Are they the original pads?
Try to fit inside pad, bugger, pins won't go through, as pads won't go far enough into caliper.
I laid the new ones on top of the old... new ones are several m/m longer. Damn
I ponder on my pain, looking at the disc, there is a ridge where the discs are old, I file a chamfer on the offending area of the pads. Try again,
Success, other side I did the same. Copper greased the pins, job done. Forget the anti rattle shim.
Not much room to swing a hammer to fully seat the pins, and nearby parts impede access, but, got there in the end.
Wheel back on sorted. Decided to do the other side another day. From past experience, I don't want to push my luck with a history of backache.
There's life in this pensioner yet
