Rear caliper rebuild.

[Louiehyper]

Is their any easy way to get the piston dust cover boot with the little metal spring into the caliper.

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Edited September 26, 2017 by Louiehyper

[glanzadude]

no just two small flat head screwdrivers and work it in

[morgey]

Stick the seal in first then the spring in afterwards

[morgey]

Just as another note. Dont use petroleum based grease on the sliders. You need to use silicone grease as the rubber will absorb the petroleum stuff and they will seize up.

[Louiehyper]

Thank you, but back to square one as the boot has split so now I need to find a good condition calliper. If anyone knows of one or has got one please let me know.

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[Flynn]

All rear calipers are shot away on these just get a rebuild kit! 👍🏼

[Louiehyper]

That's what I've done but both seals spilt so to save me wasting any more money I figured I'd just get a ready build one.

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[Farley V]

I had the same trouble recently and couldn't do it for many attempts.

Then I mastered it. The absolute key to doing it is using grease.

Put the black seal in first. Then grease the metal clip and seal with red rubber grease and it goes in unbelievably well.

Spent about 1hr without the grease. Still not able to do it.

With the grease i did all 4 callipers in less than 15min.

Edited March 4, 2018 by Farley V

[Calum122]

Funny that, I done both of mine on the Starlet and didn't have any trouble. Maybe I done it wrong lol.

[Farley V]

Fronts in particular were more troublesome for me. The clip just wouldn't fall in place properly without one side pinging back out. Was almost like the clip was too big for the recess (but it obviously wasn't)

Got to the point where i thought it might damage the seals so greased them and it was like magic.

Edited March 9, 2020 by Farley V