GT4 Calliper refurb, Time consuming horrible job....never again Options

[Insanity-74]

Not a job I ever want to do again...I`ve still got the back ones to do..Doh! Oh well...took me 9 hours to refurb the old brake callipers to their current standard, Took the old callipers off the car, lots of paint stripper to get the old paint off from my last attempt to make them look better, about 2 - 3 Hours of wire brushing to get the finish smooth and paint free...also there was a lot of disimilar metal corrosion around the back of the calliper which needed sorting out. Some heat resistant paint and a file later the results look pretty good, I also replaced all the seals and rubbers, and replaced the DOT4 brake fluid with DOT5.1...difference is amazing although had a siezed piston which wouldnt have helped.

The callipers went from this rather sorry looking thing.......



To this






Will do the back ones in about 40 years when I can be bothered again.

[Kwanza26]

They are the right spacing on the caliper bracket... but they bolt in differently (bolt onto the knuckle, not the bracket)... they're offset differently from the knuckle... they're designed for the superstrut spindles, which are vastly different... so there's some custom work needed to fir them. By that time... might as well pick up a front pair of calipers from a Toyota 4x4 truck... which are solid 4 pots also.