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Originally Posted by Archdukeferd
I hear this frequently out of people, and I'm always made to wonder what other controls of locomotion in their vehicles they're cutting corners on.
"I won't mess with brakes, but f* that steering man!"
I agree that brakes are life and death but they are also a simple hydraulic system governed by the laws of physics like anything else.
Bodhi, is this the second set of pads? I have had more trouble with the second side I do because the added brake pad material on the other side forces the piston on that side further in and thus the piston on the side you're working on further out...
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I think he meant he doesn't mess with brakes as opposed to the headlight door, or trim strips. And I do think of brakes as one of those areas where something very small going wrong can turn into something big fast (although of course there's other areas ... like flex discs, which I'll be doing too!).
On these calipers, there's only one piston each. I'm not quite sure the terminology to differentiate between these and the 123s, but on the 124 there's a portion of the caliper with the single piston in it that swings down over the brake pads ... so the piston has to be all the way in to even fit over the pads. It's not like the 123 where you slide them in over the pistons. My 123 was pretty easy to decide what to do with the calipers. They looked like they'd been pulled out of King Tut's tomb and nothing would budge for anything. 
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