Rebuilding rear calipers

[Woody.]

you will understand this once you start dismantling them, but without a tool like this you will struggle in a bad way. i would do this again no problem in about 10 minutes per side. people who say it's ballache don't improvise with makeshift tools and are most likely salads






you need to compress the shims whilst you reattach the spring. you can't compress it and leave a void for the spring without a tool like that. it's a 21mm socket set i cut down leaving two prongs still there. worked flawlessly. don't be tempted to struggle and leave shims out, as you'll lose efficiency and it's a bodge

they go back how i've got them in my diagram. it's fiddly but not impossible

Those pics are spot on mate, thanks a lot! Yeh I reckon I could frankenstein something together like that, G clamp would do the job by the looks of it

Just need to get hold of the rebuild kit now and set about doing them.

Thanks