Replacing the rear discs and pads is easy.
Mine had never bern done in the eight years since it rolled out of the showroom and it was just as well that I did as the pads on the drivers side were proper fooked...less than 3mm of material left.
So, I started into this job at around 1of the clock today.
Caliper removed, no problem.
Caliper carrier.....hmmm.
After I borrowed my mothers Modus to go to the tool shop (and hoping to God that no I knew would see me) to buy the correct M14 spline tool for those bolts,I then proceeded to habitually and catastrophically strip the skin from my knuckles as I tried to release the bolts...eventually,with the help of the spanner on the ratchet handle trick, I got the leverage needed.
Got the carrier removed and then replaced the new pads and spring clips but had to remove that ba#$@rd thing a further three times as the pads kept slipping out of place.
With that sorted, it was time to replace the caliper....but trying to screw back that piston was easier said than done
It.Would.Not.Budge.
After a lot of straining, huffing, puffing and sweary words being said, I finally had an idea.
It involved bracing the caliper between the disc and my knee and using a pipe on the handle of the windback tool, I finally managed to get it moving.
I got it back far enough to slip it over the pads and carrier and bolt the whole lot back together.
The job thats usually describrd as a couple of hours has taken me 6 1/2.
Tomorrow, I may consider doing the passenger side.
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