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Wanted: Pair of Rear calipers PH1 v40 T4

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Old Sep 24th, 2018, 19:47   #1
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Default Wanted: Pair of Rear calipers PH1 v40 T4

Hi Folks,

I went to change my rear brake pads to day and found one of the pistons seized.
I cant be arsed to try and free it up as its wont compress when I throw a load of elbow grease and massive C Clamp at it, plus the handbrake keeps seizing open every winter so its time to replace.

I'm after a pair of rear calipers in good working order that will fir a PH1 T4 V40

Any on got some squirreled away they want to let go?

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You can't unsieze the piston with a G-clamp, and it won't budge if you try anyway. They're wound in on a screw thread which exists to take up any slack for the handbrake to work as the pads wear. You need to wind them with a special tool, although a large pair of grips on the 1/16" of exposed metal beside the gater will work also.

The handbrake can be siezed for a number of different reasons, the main culprits being the lever on the caliper which needs regular re-greasing, or the handbrake cable itself, which is a very poor design having a plastic sheathe which wears and eventually snags the cable.

The caliper probably isn't siezed at all.
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Ah thanks that explains a lot with the piston, the handbrake lever on the calipers have been stucking for a long time and I have to keep on lubing and freeing them up every year anyway, being ph1 they don't have the return springs so could be kinda nice to put some PH2 calipers on perhaps.
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