Re: Extra caliper anyone?

Posted by mitchberry on Sep 16, 2010; 3:53am
URL: http://vintage-and-classic-hondas.81.s1.nabble.com/Extra-caliper-anyone-tp1484889p1485620.html

mk....   i got the stupid pad out...

i tried the compressed air thing, 140 psi is all my compressor is capable of...  it's frozen stiff..

but...... with an AIR CHISEL i was able to break the stupid thing free of the rust and get to the guts of it..


btw... the marks on the outer lip were NOT from the chisel.  but, just the same, i'm not sure if that is repairable...

once i got the pad out, i realized that out of all the photos i've seen of the piston, nothing looks like this.. i think all of the aftermarket pistons i've seen are solid ... it looks like this is a hollow "bucket" if you will that pushes a flat "coin" into the pad and moves it...

basically when i removed the pad and "coin" this is what was left....

even after i removed the pad, whatever this thing is still will not move with any amount of force..

I think the stupid thing is shot...

wv, as long as the one that you have moves freely and isn't in that bad of shape, i wouldn't mind having it.. i can send you a shipping label... what do you want for it?

the master cylinder i have isn't in any better shape....  actually, i was able to free that up with a lottttttttttttt of time and effort, but it doesn't really pressurize nearly as much as i assume it should. it needs a rebuild at minimum - but- the circlip that holds it all together is broken where someone tried to get it out once upon a time....... so... it's pretty much junk too because it's not removable now.

 i don't have any lines for it at all... not even old crusty dried up ones...  and i'm not sure which ones to buy.


That's the other question i have....

 there's a thing that i see in some of the caliper auctions on ebay that goes somewhere between the master cylinder and the caliper.

 a little tube like thing with an inlet and an outlet..

What is it and am i supposed to have one?  because i definitely don't.     that's one bad thing about working on someone else's project, you really have no idea what it originally had..