I bought the Bosch kitThanks for the confirmation BigBang and will buy new cylinders and shoes (if possible to get cylinders) to be on the safe side....
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I'm also changing the plastic slider pads and rubber bungs in the back plate. Sliders can be found but most sellers are charging an arm and a leg. I think the cheapest I saw was cĀ£8 for a set of 12. |
Bought my fully assembled Bosch kit online through the GSF web page. The plastic inserts via a indy garage VW / TPS. Sounds about the right price.Thanks for the confirmation BigBang and will buy new cylinders and shoes (if possible to get cylinders) to be on the safe side....
Yes by now the rust may have eaten through that part and stuck together, BUT there could be a way, like how the cylinders were changed on mine.I wish you luck with removing the brake line from the cylinder. Mine were impossible to undo...
Yes by now the rust may have eaten through that part and stuck together, BUT there could be a way, like how the cylinders were changed on mine.
Instead of trying to remove the cylinder first, after all the parts inside have been removed, (except the middle big bolt, as that needs to be replaced and torqued properly every time being removed) try to untwist the whole cover plate!
It's not easy to spin it all around, but it's doable, carefully move the brake pipes though.
When you spin the plate, you'll unsrew the cylinder as well, but you'll have to realign it when adding the new one! Still better than not being able to change it.
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It wasn't theory, I had it done and others too, but if there's damaged parts involved, that'd add to the issues.In theory yes but in my case I stripped the nut even when I was using the wrench for brake lines...
Heat is the best optionThanks everyone for your replys and invaluable information..
You are right about the brakepipe connector being seized so i managed to spin the brake cylinder and remove it that way.
My issue now is that the new cylinders must have the threads at a different place on the clock from the old cylinders.
This means that when i spin the cylinders onto the brakepipe through the backplate, the holes don't then line up when nipped up because of the seizure of the connector...
The easiest way,i can think of, is to use the original brake piston outer casing and recondition the inner workings...
Unless anyone knows a way of freeing the brake pipe connector from the pipe itself.
Its the only time that I've come up against this problem..
Pain that it is, I could only buy the long side brake pipe from Autod*c which if your in a rush is no help. The other side snapped but my local garage made a new one from copper pipe and pretty much to shape using the old one I took with me, cost me about Ā£15 which got me out of jail.Thanks everyone for your replys and invaluable information..
You are right about the brakepipe connector being seized so i managed to spin the brake cylinder and remove it that way.
My issue now is that the new cylinders must have the threads at a different place on the clock from the old cylinders.
This means that when i spin the cylinders onto the brakepipe through the backplate, the holes don't then line up when nipped up because of the seizure of the connector...
The easiest way,i can think of, is to use the original brake piston outer casing and recondition the inner workings...
Unless anyone knows a way of freeing the brake pipe connector from the pipe itself.
Its the only time that I've come up against this problem..
If the misalignement is small a tiny twist of the brake pipe could be enough. Else I would recommend to bite the dust and fabricate a new brake pipe from CuNi (rather than pure Cu).Thanks everyone for your replys and invaluable information..
You are right about the brakepipe connector being seized so i managed to spin the brake cylinder and remove it that way.
My issue now is that the new cylinders must have the threads at a different place on the clock from the old cylinders.
This means that when i spin the cylinders onto the brakepipe through the backplate, the holes don't then line up when nipped up because of the seizure of the connector...