caliper rebuilds

[ledgend80]

as above looking for somewhere good to get the front calipers from my 80 series overhauled.

location brisbane

[84sloth]

slacks creek brake n clutch. dealt with the for years. so has my father. wouldnt go anywhere else. IMHO

[Shadow]

same as 84sloth, have used slacks creek brake and clutch on all of my cruisers, as has my dad lol.

[bru21]

buy them new from poly performance - cheap as

[poppywhite]

Do you want to do rebuild yourself, then just buy kit and keep everything clean, is not dificult job.

If you want to drop vehicle to shop and pick up finished follow advice already given

[ledgend80]

i have already rebuilt them once before but i think i have a sticky piston so was looking to get them rebuilt complete.

hey bru do you have a link to the calipers on there site or do i need to just ask them.

cheers lee

[RAY185]

BHSS at Capalaba are very good.

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[ledgend80]

yeah it was much better when they had the shop at abbstford road.

[RAY185]

Absolutely. They were just down the road from me.

[bru21]

http://www.polyperformance.com/shop/Tra ... 21369.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

sorry these were the ones I was thinking of - I was looking to fit them to 80s diffs I had.

[TheBigBoy]

I got a unnamed place to rebuild my front brakes. $850 and a day and a half later, I was a bit anoyed. Mate of mine who is a mechanic said my rear brakes are sticking and most likely rusted. REPCO - $17 for the rubber seal kit, $38 for the new piston. Its sooo easy to do, it shocked me.

Remove 1 side caliper
take cap off brake cylinder and fill to top
pump brakes until piston busts out
put brake clamp on hose and remove calipers completely
carbi clean them and some new copper grease on slides
fit rubber kit to calipers and piston (put rubber on piston first inside out and slide it in)
Spray piston with silicone and push it
hook it all back up and open nipple, let gravity fill calipers with fluid until constant drip from open nipple
put finger over nipper and get someone to pump until no air (refill when needed)
then bleed them properly
took me 20 minutes in total and PERFECT

I will never get the someone to do my brakes and get ripped off again.

Parts for your 2 front will be about $250 plus carbi clean and copper grease (so $300), the 2 rear $110
thats if you need new pistons at all (I personally would) but a brake shop might just buff up your old ones on a wire wheel and throw them back in.

[Shadow]

thats fine, unless your pistons are rusted, $30-$60 ea to replace
etc etc

[hj 45]

I got a set of calipers overhauled a month back, $470 odd, which hurt, half that amount was the parts. I did the rotors myself to save cash. That's a HJ 47 'cruiser BTW.

[scuba steve 22]

I got a set of calipers overhauled a month back, $470 odd, which hurt, half that amount was the parts. I did the rotors myself to save cash. That's a HJ 47 'cruiser BTW.

there is a bloke up here who will rebuild your calipers with stainless pistons for $250/300 a pair, depending on model(mostly troopys). All the Fraser hire mobs use him, as it stops the rusty pistons for ever

cheers steve

[WICKED]

I got a set of calipers overhauled a month back, $470 odd, which hurt, half that amount was the parts. I did the rotors myself to save cash. That's a HJ 47 'cruiser BTW.

there is a bloke up here who will rebuild your calipers with stainless pistons for $250/300 a pair, depending on model(mostly troopys). All the Fraser hire mobs use him, as it stops the rusty pistons for ever

cheers steve

Details?

[scuba steve 22]

hi name is chook, and he machines the pistons up on a lathe in his back shed. ill try and get his number today

cheers steve

[TheOtherLeft]

hi name is chook, and he machines the pistons up on a lathe in his back shed. ill try and get his number today

Now that doesn't sound dodgy at all...

[TheBigBoy]

How do you think the ones you buy get made?

[RAY185]

How do you think the ones you buy get made?

Presumably in a factory with a good quality control system where tolerances are checked on every unit.

It's the back shed thing that would scare most people when it comes to brake parts. Perhaps he has a better setup than what most people automatically imagine when you say 'machines them up in the back shed'.

Stainless pistons is an interesting idea. Old mate would want to make sure the outside surface is polished extremely smooth as the seal runs up and down on it and will fail with anything other than a super smooth surface as seen in normal chrome plated steel pistons.

[scuba steve 22]

How do you think the ones you buy get made?

Presumably in a factory with a good quality control system where tolerances are checked on every unit.

It's the back shed thing that would scare most people when it comes to brake parts. Perhaps he has a better setup than what most people automatically imagine when you say 'machines them up in the back shed'.

Stainless pistons is an interesting idea. Old mate would want to make sure the outside surface is polished extremely smooth as the seal runs up and down on it and will fail with anything other than a super smooth surface as seen in normal chrome plated steel pistons.

well he has done nearly all the hire trucks around here plus a lot of private trucks too, without incident
he is a retired machinist, so im sure he knows what he is doing

[RAY185]

How do you think the ones you buy get made?

Presumably in a factory with a good quality control system where tolerances are checked on every unit.

It's the back shed thing that would scare most people when it comes to brake parts. Perhaps he has a better setup than what most people automatically imagine when you say 'machines them up in the back shed'.

Stainless pistons is an interesting idea. Old mate would want to make sure the outside surface is polished extremely smooth as the seal runs up and down on it and will fail with anything other than a super smooth surface as seen in normal chrome plated steel pistons.

well he has done nearly all the hire trucks around here plus a lot of private trucks too, without incident
he is a retired machinist, so im sure he knows what he is doing

Sounds great.
Any luck getting some contact info for him?

[scuba steve 22]

Sounds great.
Any luck getting some contact info for him?

pm sent

[TheBigBoy]

Send it my way also plz