The Joys of a Brake Job

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As the title said

I got all the parts for a brake job, front and rear pads and discs and all the little bits that go with it to do a full 4 corner brake job on my V60 when I got back from my holiday.

Now back and started the job on the front and while the calipers and discs were a bit corroded the fronts when to plan and jobs done in and afternoon.

The rears however have turned into a little bit of a saga.

I could see they were a little dodge through the wheel, very corroded, pads down to the bone and discs shot. Discs came off with no bother. Someone had been in before me and slightly rounded off the caliper bolts on both sides, though I got them off with a little heat and taking it slowly. Pads on one side fell to bits when removed, the other side were not as bad.

Inspected the piston in the calipers and both looked ok to start, but one had a little split and the other piston had a little weep. Tried the battery method to wind back one of the pistons with the split and its won't move back, it actually wobbles, also took the motor off and tried the manual wind back and again this is not budging. So with that and the condition of the calipers the best course of action is to change both calipers.

Got the part numbers and tried to sort a pair, left rear not a problem, right rear, nope. Want calipers without the handbrake motors? Its more expensive than ones with (I don't understand that either) and by a tidy sum.

I think it will be sometime next week before its all done, and a new MOT a week later hopefully.

The upside to this saga, the extras I have to do are still well within the Volvo quote I got for a 4 corner brake job and I got some new tools past the wife as its an important safety job and who doesn't like new tools