Painting calipers

[carson_sri]

What's the best and easiest way to clean up and paint calipers.

 

[Matt]

Have a look at evocarlos's build thread. He's put a fair bit of information in there about cleaning and painting the callipers.

 

[carson_sri]

Cheers matt. Not looking forward to doing it but might aswell While the brakes are being changed. Should look good with new shiny parts tho.

 

[evocarlos]

Cheers matt. Not looking forward to doing it but might aswell While the brakes are being changed. Should look good with new shiny parts tho.

hey
my only advice its not to use any copper grease near the rubbers it makes them swell and ruins them
black grease on the sliders and under the piston dust seal
you dont have to go full on super clean like mine but i like to do it right
some short cut links for you you will have to read on a bit past the other posts to see the full images
rear calipers
i never removed the pistons in the rears as there a pain to get back on the spindle so just made sure they were free moving
https://z22se.co.uk/threads/project...-poly-bushs-astra-g.22133/page-2#post-1193008

front calipers
https://z22se.co.uk/threads/project...poly-bushs-astra-g.22133/page-24#post-1200256

 

[carson_sri]

Thanks for the advice. Ill give it a go cheers

 

[carson_sri]

finally started painting the calipers after 4 months.

 

[evocarlos]

lookin good

 

[Sjdickso]

Nice one, I did mine the other week, pity the rear caliper was sticking on with the broken handbrake and make the paint on the brake disc blister my word it got hot though lol

 

[carson_sri]

cheers carl. i never went to extreme with them. i painted them on the car after a clean. they look aright. only thing is i got some paint on the pad. looks abit messy because of that.

 

[evocarlos]

cheers carl. i never went to extreme with them. i painted them on the car after a clean. they look aright. only thing is i got some paint on the pad. looks abit messy because of that.

im more interested in how your car is running
and im glad the brake pipes got you thru the mot

 

[carson_sri]

the car is running like a dream mate. the pipes where fine fitted with no issues. im a very happy z22se owner again.

 

[evocarlos]

good good thats what i like to hear