to brake with out breaking

[Sopwith_Camel]

ok I plan to do the rear brake seals in the morning (67 mk2)

A. any tips about how to disassemble the brakes, with out causing more problems then i started with. I have a hanes manual.

B. its going to be a cold morning together so that will mean the medal is contracted will that make it easier or harder. i remember in 9th grade science class the teacher heating up a ball joint with a blow torch and I forget if that made it move or stop moving.

cheery
steve

 

[MikeP]

Outside temperature, unless it's well below zero there probably won't make a difference to the ease of disassembly. Severe cold can make metal brittle and break easier as I found out one time on a car that sat outside when it got around -25 below. Dropped a pair of pliers and they snapped.

You may need a torch though to encourage bolts if they've never been apart before. Using it on the head of the bolt or on the stop where it's threaded into something can break corrosion bonds in the threads.

I've never touched a MK2 though so I can't comment on the specifics of it's requirements.

 

[Deleted member 8987]

I've done them....remember the e-brakes are part of the castings....don't damage the forks.
Fronts are shimmed to centre the calipers on the rotor.....don't recall off hand if years are, just watch it and get them all back in the same places (inner and outer).
Hope your calipers are good. Unlike most US and later imports, at least 64's still had seals on the piston, which means, if the dust seal is torn (often), water gets in and rusts the snot out of the housing bore, and as the pads wear, the piston seal drags across the rust and leaks.
While you're in there, if your 240/340 is like full MK2's, there is a grease zerk (fitting) on the bottom of each axle tube, right behind the rotors...clean it off and give it 5 or so strokes with a grease gun.

 

[Sopwith_Camel]

fantiasic
yess it was the tip about the greasing that I was hoping for I knew there would be a little gem of knolage out there.

Got one brake off yeseterday between snow storms. the lugs had been put on by an air gun so it was murder just getting the wheel off
so im soking the nuts on wd40 and will take it apart tonight. can I leave the connecting tube connected up? i guess is should take it apart clean it for next time

steve

 

[why]

yeah but Mozart is dead and so is tom Lehrer and you aren't so look where it all got them; although I still hum "they're rioting in Africa, there's strife in Iran, what nature doesn't do to us will be done by our fellow man." I think he sang that at least sixty years ago

 

[LarryK]

WD40 is not a penetrating oil. Try PB Blaster or someting similar and you will find bolts easier to remove after as little as 30 minutes soaking.

 

[Sopwith_Camel]

Tom Lehrer is not dead.
he lives in Cambridge Mass

steve