Technical Reconditioned brake calipers

[minimad99]

Does anyone know of a company that supplies reconditioned brake calipers or a place to buy cheap new ones? Rears in particular.

Mine are working OK but i'm not 100% happy with the brakes on mine even though discs and pads are upgraded.
Odd rumbling/mooing noise from rear when braking firmly or extendedly but only when braking so not wheel bearings???

Ta

Neil

 

[Argonought]

Personally, I'd suspect the discs/pads as being suspect especially if they're non oem and they've only just been fitted :chin:

 

[minimad99]

Personally, I'd suspect the discs/pads as being suspect especially if they're non oem and they've only just been fitted :chin:

They've been fitted ages Argo, they're the Reddot set I bought from them and had the problems with warped rear discs, do you remember?
Thought it may be warped discs again but there is no movement in the brake pedal like last time.
Also need to check my servo is working OK

 

[minimad99]

Servo working fine.
Stripped out the offside rear brakes, all looked OK no odd wearing or scouring.
As I saw mentioned on here about the bleed nipple and i didn't so that before thought i'd try and push the piston in again. So did the normal loosen handbrake, clamp brake pipe and then gently opened the bleed nipple expecting a bit of fluid to come out as it's under a bit of pressure.............nothing so started to push the piston in with windback tool and the fluid came out, i had tightened it finger tight so wasn't that much open, then i saw a few bubbles come out so stopped and tightened.

Put everything back together again and it seem much much better, not perfect but the pedal feels firmer and the groaning is no where near as bad and it definately stops quicker when you plant the brake pedal.
I'll do the nearside ASAP.
I can only assume a small bit of air got trapped inside the caliper when i retracted them last year but not enough to cause a noticable problem till recently.

 

[Argonought]

It's always nice when you find a simple solution (well cheaper anyway)

 

[PNL]

Hey Minimad here's another link from Phil's links-R-us..


http://www.fiat.car-brakes.co.uk/