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Old 09-23-2007, 11:04 AM
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I stand corrected.
when pulling the pads, the build up and gunk on the pad area was indeed in the way, I used a metal sawzal blade to clean out the area, but did not consider lubrication... I am leery of putting any grease near where it could get on the rotor.
when anybody mentions greasing the "slide" area of a caliper, I think of a single sided sliding caliper. which these MB's do not have.

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Old 09-25-2007, 12:02 AM
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To this point - sometimes you may even have to use a file to get all the old rust off. Then sand smooth, and coat with something like SylGlide. On all parts that touch. It's a silicone based caliper slide compound.
Yup, Sylglide is good stuff, an' zaccly what I used too...
I used a file on the coarse rust on the spindle mount & slide areas for the calipers, then finished them with one of those semi abrasive fibre Roloc wheels on a die grinder. Then I went to the wrecker and looked around till I found a nice looking car with a busted timing chain, low and behold it looked to have had a very recent brake job (everything was still clean), snagged all 4 rotors, calipers, pads, & flex lines, ran me about $150 for everything, not bad for a complete brake job,lol.
I'll tell ya, 4 yrs of sitting out in grass can really rust stuff up,lol.

The piston seals can be replaced, not too hard to do either, I believe I removed the old ones by working a small flat blade screwdriver around them, theyre just a tight slip fit metal band cast in the rubber boot. I had to replace a couple of cut ones on mine.

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