Seademon 0 Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 Gonna be changing my rear pads soon - anything I Should do or be aware of when doing them? I've got a bearing that needs doing aswell so I plan on doing this at the same time.Any hints & tips?Ta! Link to post Share on other sites
rodney 17 Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 WD40/lubricate the nuts and bolts all the day before regularly.... Mine were a B**CH! The one inparticular on the inner-side :@ , Renowned for being stuck and rounding off...... Grrr Had to get the garage to take 'em off with heat and impact devices. The new bolts were OEM ones as they are an odd size/length. £1 each... :@ Either that or they'll pop right off for you.Other than that dont forget to pop the top off your reserviour and keep an eye on it when popping the brake caliper pistons back to their minimum settings as you'll have topped up over the years and it will overflow...Lots of people have their own methods of popping the pistons back. Ruddy great set of eagle beaks and a little protectoion work for me.As long as the bolts come off it is a piece of cake I wish you an infinately easier time than I had Link to post Share on other sites
Seademon 0 Posted February 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 Ha ha cheers! Im giving myself a whole weekend to show my car some overdue TLC - not done anything to it since last easter and since then Ive been to the ring twice so gonna do the works to it, anything that it needs it'll get :0) Link to post Share on other sites
jims13 6 Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 ha yeah , ive just done this, i did rear discs and bearings at the same time, bearing were only 4-5 quid, and discs i already had. my caliper bolts were seized, and it took los of heat and a modified hex head to remove them (hammered it in)the only thing on the car that gave us problems was the rear caliper (passenger).remeber the piston screws back on the rear , so dont try to push it back like you would the fronts.good luck Link to post Share on other sites
Seademon 0 Posted February 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 Nice one cheers - will I need a special tool for the calipers or can I improvise with something else that can be found in the garage? Link to post Share on other sites
purple highline monster 0 Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 Mark buy some abs rings for the rear of the discs they are quite hard to get off sometimes espaecially in one piece! and get new 8mm bolts for the caliper carrier (not the ones for the caliper itself), as above they always round out! and be carefull of the bleed nipple on the calipers as they can seize and you dont want one to snap off!!!!!! Link to post Share on other sites
gloster 0 Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 The calipers on the rear need to be twisted and pushed so a caliper windback tool turns this job from a pain in the proverbial to a breeze. Not cheap [think i paid £20 for a decent one] but essential.Prob worth trying to borrow one local? Link to post Share on other sites
Seademon 0 Posted February 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2007 Anyone know whats involved with doing a rear bearing? My mates got the tools I need to do all this but I wanna get everything sorted and bought so we can just blitz it this weekendNick - where abouts do the abs rings go? How much are they?Ta! Link to post Share on other sites
SankysVR6 1 Posted February 20, 2007 Report Share Posted February 20, 2007 The ABS rings will be on the back of the old discs. Looks like a cog type thing.But as Nick said you would be better of buying new ones and putting them on the new discs.The bearings have 2 races one outer and an inner one, it's just a case of tapping them into the new discs. It will be all self explanatory when you start the work. Link to post Share on other sites
Seademon 0 Posted February 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2007 Cheers - I wasnt planning on changing the discs tho just the pads and 1 bearing, if I do the bearing will it upset the abs ring? Link to post Share on other sites
SankysVR6 1 Posted February 20, 2007 Report Share Posted February 20, 2007 Oh i see.You souldn't need to disturb the ABS ring if you are just chaning the bearing. But you will have to take the rear disc off to change the bearing. Link to post Share on other sites
craggsy 91 Posted February 20, 2007 Report Share Posted February 20, 2007 If your changing rear bearings you might as well do discs, then you don't have to press bearings out of old disc Link to post Share on other sites
petervr6 0 Posted February 20, 2007 Report Share Posted February 20, 2007 yep as above your best to replace both disc and wheel bearings the ABS ring should come off easy ive never had aproblem getting the rings of you just need a pry bar and pry it from each side bit by bit thill they pop off easy mate and DONT FORGET TO PUT THE ABS RING BACK ON as i have a=donr it once or twice and it really annoying when you have to take it all apart agian. good luck Link to post Share on other sites
petervr6 0 Posted February 20, 2007 Report Share Posted February 20, 2007 were abouts do you live mate. Link to post Share on other sites
petervr6 0 Posted February 20, 2007 Report Share Posted February 20, 2007 Oh i see.You souldn't need to disturb the ABS ring if you are just chaning the bearing. But you will have to take the rear disc off to change the bearing.also as qouted there a bugger to get the old bearings out Link to post Share on other sites
Seademon 0 Posted February 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2007 Cheers for the replies! Live in Crayford, Kent - I've got a hi-spec conversion on the rear and my discs sit on bells so I might order a new pair of discs and do both bearings at the same time - I need to get the pads on urgently so I'll just do those this weekend and pop up Hi Spec & order the new discs. Link to post Share on other sites
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