FS: Brembo brake upgrade

[carlos-1975]

i have today decided i am a muppet and cannot do anything so i may sell the brembo upgrade i purchased yesterday as i started to fit it today and have come to the conclusion i cannot do it but if i dont get a good offer i will sit on the calipers and fit them one day so what is included
full brembo upgrade for sale with everything needed to bolt to a pfl car the other rear is on the car but will be off friday and is included
brembo front calipers
discs
pads
f/l hub carriers with abs sensors
exact engineering braded brake hoses
brembo rear calipers
discs
pads
exact engineering braded brake hoses
and all nuts and bolts i took of the donar car
offers in the region of £550

[Beastlee]

Carl, don't give up! What problems have you come across? Surely someon on the forum can lend a hand. If there's anything i can do to help let me know.

[Nutter_John]

Not that hard to do as lee says

[carlos-1975]

i really want to fit them and have fitted 1 rear which was a piece of piss started stripping down one of the fronts broke my ball joint splitter and bashed my hand with the hammer. cheers for the input lee.

i know its not hard but i just had enough at the moment cheers john and i am worried about ruining the rubbers on the ball joints

[White Lightning]

Sounds like a rough day mate but like others have said don't give up. We all have bad days when we break stuff and sometimes hurt ourselves. Just have some time away from the car mate and come back to it fresh.

[White Lightning]

And just to add, I know exactly what you mean about ball joint rubbers. I always seem to damage them when I use a splitter. Nowadays I just factor in replacing the rubber if necessary and make sure I have a spare rubber up front.

[carlos-1975]

you know what could some body please close this thread or delete it i am going to get them fitted will crack it friday saturday cheers guys
carl

[Spirit]

make sure you have a spare rubber

It's a public service CVR4 you know......even sex education is catered for

[dave-at-home]

Quick question - are BJ rubbers readilly available and what is the design? Do they push onto the BJ housing (a press fit) or do they use a spring clip in a groove?

[Nutter_John]

Yep they are availble from mitsi , for the whole set it will be £72 in the uk

and yes they are a push fit with spring clip in grove

[dave-at-home]

£72 - that just the rubber or the new BJ?

[Nutter_John]

thats for the six new rubbers

[White Lightning]

you know what could some body please close this thread or delete it i am going to get them fitted will crack it friday saturday cheers guys
carl

Well done Carl

Are you going to get some replacement rubbers in case then ...?

[Davezj]

can i make a suggestion carl, you really need to use a lot of wd40, for a good few days before you tackle a job like this, unless you are really lucky and everthing is already loose. you will need to spray the baltjoint on the hub carrier, the front and back of the driveshaft where it goes through the hub, spray back of the hub where it joins the hub carrier. personally i would do this for a week before attempting the job. just be carefull not to spary the disks and pads.

this will make the much easier. i did this when i changed the front drive shaft and took the bus to work for the week and evrything came apart real easy. left for long enough wd40 does get in to all the nooks and crannies. i spayed once in the morning and once in the evening. but with you situation even spraying every half hour for a day would probably do the job.
hopfully this will much reduce the hammer finger contact time.

here is a tip for you as well, when the hub carrier is off and you want to remove the hub from the carrier.
1. support the hub carrier so the hub is face down with hub free to move, ie when bolts undo the hub can drop off the front of the carrier. i would suggest 2 bits of wood or metal, or the jaws of a big vice would do.
2. undo the hub bolts about 1mm each.
3. leave the socket on the back of the hub bolt. give it a wack.
4. repeat 3 for the other hub bolts.
5. spray with more wd40 if needed.
6. repeat 2 and then £ for each hub bolt .
7. hub drops of carrier.

easy.

[White Lightning]

It's a public service CVR4 you know......even sex education is catered for

[carlos-1975]

i think i did go at it like a bull at a gate as usual gonna give it a bit of wd40 over the next few days got most of it apart just the bottom two ball joints as the hubs were new a few months before getting the car most of it come apart easy just the two bottom joints were a bugger and yeah gonna get some spare rubber woo hoo cheers again boys and girls

[White Lightning]

Sounds like a plan

[Nutter_John]

use proper ball joint spliters that have enough balls to brake then , do not use cheap small ones as they never work very well

[Beastlee]

Glad to hear it Carl, good on you for persevering. I felt like chucking it all in at the weekend and then I had a good session stripping one of those wing mirrors. Now I've even written my first article!

[carlos-1975]

it was a cheap one but it did fine yesterday when i stripped the brembo setup of the donar car and started well today but flaked on the bottom one to the side of the drive shaft not the one directly underneath i never got round to that one also while i am here how hard are they to bleed?