Seized Front Calliper Pad Pins

[minivin]

"Oh arse" was mentioned a few weeks ago when I went to replace my 30k mile old pads with some new one's and found the pad pins seized in the callipers.

"I only greased you up 6k miles ago" was also a a pollite version of what else was said.

Anyhoo, having looked at how the pins of mild steel had rotted, I decided my plans of two years ago some people may remember, was to make some stainless steel pins.

Some 303 3/16" was ordered and the following pins made:



I initially attacked the offside calliper (closest to house light if evening approached) and drilled down the centre of the pin with a 2mm drill, once half way through and enough to break the portion off and get one pad out, I proceeded to further increase the drill bit by 0.5mm increments until the full 4.5mm pad pin diameter had been reached.

I took the calliper off the stancion, broke the first portion off and got the pads out after pushing the pistons back in, I was then left with the nasty position as such:



After going around my neighbours and borrowing some pliars (broke mine), I got the pin out after wagging it back and forth gently:



OK, going to go now clean the first calliper, fit the replacement pads and pin, then set forth on the second calliper, wish me luck

[sandbar]

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The mind boggles!!!

Just imagine the fuss if this sort of thing happened on Mondeo's or Vectra's.

sandbar

[minivin]

he he, except for the usual paint dissappearing act on the forks you wouldn't think my bike had been through two winters of constant use, 31k on the clock as of tomorrow when I go get the oils that I have been meaning to get to service it

After getting the first calliper back together I got onto the second one (nearside) and started drilling down the centre again as per the first act, unfortunately the drill bit broke 20mm in <ar$e>

Looking at my problem and after try to teeze the first portion out with a scalpel blade and fine screwdriver, gave up and found the angle grinder

the disc was half worn and fitted in beautifully, ground off the first portion and got the first bit out of the calliper between the first pad and the start of the pin, then ground out the next portion so I could get the pads out, and once again with the pliers I set forth and out she came <yay!>

I must get my reliable British Bike back together after it's conversion to disks

[iandunn1100ss]

hi its a bit cheeky but would you sale me some pins please in stainless

[minivin]

Unfortunately I can't spare the time to do other jobs at the moment, got to do work, amongst trying to put a land rover on the road, service the R11S, put two VIncent's back together, fix dad's bike, put dad's other bike on the road, oh and eat and sleep I need to retire forty years early!

[boxerpan]

trying to put a land rover on the road

Speaking of Land Rovers - where's the best place to source a chassis for a MkII lwb ? A good friend of mine has just had a spring hanger rot away and has made the brave decision to do a proper refurb. Any pointers gratefully recieved.

[minivin]

oh carp, don't get in here often!

ok, it's a bit open to people's interpretations on what company supplies the best chassis, come like standard, some like galvanised, some like coil conversions et cetera, here are a few:

http://www.richardschassis.co.uk standard chassis's, galvanised, 3% discount for Series II club members (may make it worth him joining!)

http://www.paddockspares.com sale Marslands chassis, may be cheaper due to bulk orders et cetera

http://www.marslands.com more expensive than richards, but did Fred Dibnahs 88" et cetera, so open to interpretation.

there are others, just more orientated towards coil conversions (might as well buy a defender 90 or 110) and I aint got their address's to hand [/url]