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Buying a piston repair kit tomorrow and my mechanic is going to repair for me.How urgent is the need to get it back on the road? You might find a reco caliper on eBay fairly cheap and that would be really easy to fit yourself. The dust seals can be a bit tricky to get in properly is all. You will need a seal pick to clean out the grooves where the seals seat in. Sometimes they get a small lump of rust in them and they push on the seal making it jam on or sometime stick in making the piston not come out as quickly as it should.
Yeah I can see the caliper through the wheel though not sure what I'm looking for. Thankfully my mechanic said he will fix it tomorrow. Thanks for all your advice. He is also repairing my rear wheel bearing. Just sucks having to spend close to 4g on a car I've owned 2 weekscan you see the caliper through the wheel
this a photo of a ve caliper pad installed correctly on ebay dont worry about the the models it fits one pin in the each arch
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/FRONT-BRAKE-UPGRADE-COMMODORE-VB-VK-VR-VS-VT-VX-VY-VZ-328mm-ROTORS-CALIPERS/263282409028?_trkparms=aid=111001&algo=REC.SEED&ao=1&asc=56923&meid=3ec6649ad23d44aea03d7d76d2a7fef9&pid=100675&rk=1&rkt=15&sd=263282409028&itm=263282409028&_trksid=p2481888.c100675.m4236&_trkparms=pageci:2ddefe4a-4d4d-11e9-ba3f-74dbd180ffbe|parentrq:a9dbcf771690a9c9a87ab313fff33b01|iid:1
So I had a look at my calipers and the pad seemed to look different from 1 side to the other. So with the help of knowing it's a 12mm socket I removed the caliper and swapped the pads around. Qhen trying to put the caliper back on it didnt seem to tighten. Then I noticed the nut between where you put the pin in and the caliper spinning. Used a multi grip to hold it while i righted the bolt into caliper. It seems to have fixed the issue. Wheel isnt locked up anymore and the excessive heat from wheel has gone even after a long drive. Thank you all for your help. Really appreciate it and feel much more confident removing and replacing the caliper parts. I'm still going to use my caliper repair kit and I did notice the slightest amount of rust on the piston. I also think the reason my piston was sticking was the old pads were really worn and using the new pads the piston isnt coming out as far as it used to so may also have been the sticky reason. Seems to be ok for now. Thanks again.Yeah I can see the caliper through the wheel though not sure what I'm looking for. Thankfully my mechanic said he will fix it tomorrow. Thanks for all your advice. He is also repairing my rear wheel bearing. Just sucks having to spend close to 4g on a car I've owned 2 weeks
I have had sticky pistons before and the mech picked it up in just a 30min safety inspection. I don't get how a qualified mech's can make mistakes like that? I mean surely they would have done 100s of brake repairs. I have seen some dodgy **** down here in Tas and in SA. Makes me wonder how they just dodge it up and take your money and then accept no responsibility. How can these places even still be in business? I had a tyre and brake place in south of Adelaide try and tell me they could adjust the camber on an old Mini, I owned when I was 16. They even did the job while I was watching and charged me 35 bucks for the "alignment". I drove it out and went to a Mini expert who explained there is no adjustment. IMO surely after a four year apprenticeship and six months of trade school you would think they know their ****...
The front of my ve definitely has camber angle, the top of my wheel is slightly close to the car then the bottom. It steers so goodYes, the place should have removed the caliper pin and greased it up, to make sure it didn't seize up.
As for camber adjustments.....I can tell you, there are plenty of cars out there that the manufacturer claim and experts with particular makes claim, there is no camber adjustment, but there is slight camber adjustment, by undoing the up right bolts and moving the stub axle inwards or outwards, depending on which way the camber needs to be.
IMA, the adjustment is only small, but sometimes it is enough to stop a drift and limit the wear....As for minis, I honestly can't remember if you can move the stub axle inwards or outwards to adjust camber....
The front of my ve definitely has camber angle, the top of my wheel is slightly close to the car then the bottom. It steers so good