Fitting Calipers Advice

[Tallpaul]

Righto, i've got a set of Calipers to fit.

They are just single pot and come with new hoses too. The whole brake systems fluid needs to be bled and changed (2 years since last done) and i'd rather pay the garage to do this with the annual service.

My fluid reservoir is currently full. Would it be realistic to clamp the existing hoses, fit the new calipers and bleed the pistons from the existing reservoir. Then i'd get the garage to fit the new hoses while they were replacing the fluid.

I know it'd be a bit messy doing this, but do you think there is sufficient spare fluid to do this and safely drive for a few days until the garage completely bleeds the system?

 

[m0rk]

No, you need to fill the new piston

Bleeding the brakes is the easy bit compared to what you want.

Other complications may well be corroded & ceased copper hard line connections - so beware of that & clean & WD40 them a lot!

if you disconnect the flexi from the hard lines with the fluid cap you will loose minimal fluid - then swap the lines over quickly - you will not get large amounts of air in the system

all said & done - if you aren't confident in bleeding the brakes, leave the whole lot alone.

Then again - it's pretty easy to do if you're methodical & it all goes according to plan!

 

[Tallpaul]

Cheers m0rk,

I had been quoted £60 by my garage for the brake fluid change but my local tuner wants £90 to fit the parts and change the fluid too!

I reckon that's a fairly good price

I'm reasonably confident of doing the job myself but i find bleeding the brakes on my mountain bike a PITA so i'd imagine that fitting all these parts and bleeding all 4 corners wouldn't be much fun.

Plus redecorating my gf's flat is becoming a full-time job in itself. I reckon i'll leave this one to the pro's.