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Venting time... Fiesta disc brakes. What a f*cking pita to refurbish. I’ve spent all afternoon trying to sort one calliper out. After breaking my Draper calliper key on Monday, I managed to get the slider bolts out using a socket-set based key. Only to find the crappy aeroquip style pipes have ends made of case hardened cheese. Yup, rounded as soon as any torque applied to remove. Never mind, cut the end off and hammer a socket on and off it came...… The slider bolts cleaned up ok but fitting the new rubber guides was a game that I didn’t enjoy playing much. The piston eventually popped out after spraying Ben and I with copious amounts of grotty Dot4... horrible stuff, I genuinely don’t understand why *anyone* would choose to use it over silicone... Anyway... much cleaning later and after fitting the new seal into the calliper, I went to fit the piston and dust cover. Three times I’ve tried to get the dust cover and the piston fitted correctly at the same time (both fit individually very nicely). It was at that point I gave up and went for a cuppa - not much to show for two hours work and much aggro. So not only do I need a new pair of front flexis - sadly not the same as the proper Imp ones, of which I have several, but I still need to resolve this bloody calliper and the discs themselves really need skimming as there’s quite a bit of rust due to the car standing... which will cost more than a pair of new discs... but then they’ll need redrilling... arggghhh. Either way more poxy expense... It’s not my car... so I can’t do the decent thing and put it back to drums (my preference - I still think discs are complete overkill on this car and I don’t like the pedal feel). So I’ve got a pile more work to do... and a load more money to spend. Grrrr.
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