Front brake maintenance

[Anonymous]

I just want to inform all you guys who perform your own maintenance on the Vee.

As I inspected the front pads, I noticed sticky pads in the calliper,
so cleaned it out the usual way, and put the pads back in.
But what the f#u%k is going on, no improvement. :shock:
So ended up taking of the calliper, and had a good look at them.
There are four stainless steel sliding plates where two of them looked like they were a bit bend.
They had expanded due to corrosion underneath them.
So I spent a good deal of the afternoon cleaning up underneath the plates and adding cupperpaste to protect it a bit.
See the red lined section in the image to have it pointed out.
For me this will be as of today, a one time per year maintenance job.

 

[Jamesv6]

Did you find a noticable improvement after this was done?

 

[John V6]

All it will do is stop the pads sticking and wearing rather quickly in the worst case.

 

[big peaches]

i had some serious break binding, the front right wasnt comming on, and the front left was sticking on, so no need to turn the wheel for left hand bends as the car did it any way..... after me and me dad spent about an hour getting the pads out lol, and a thourough cllean, jeesus these breaks are good they come in erlier too