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Author: Subject: Bugger! Brake windback tool damaged
James

posted on 3/2/13 at 06:23 PM Reply With Quote
Bugger! Brake windback tool damaged

Yesterday I decided to do the rear brake pads on my Primera.

Borrowed a brake windback tool from a friend who's a mechanic.

The windback on the drivers side was impossible until I put a tube around the handle (the bit like the handle on a vice that slides back and forth).... predictable perhaps it now has one very bent handle as it just folded like a piece of cheese.
I managed the job in the end using a spanner around the end but I now have a very bent £200 borrowed tool!

Sealey


Any thoughts?

Wondering about replacing the bar with a new piece. It's about 8mm diameter. What sort of steel should I use? I could weld the 'nobs' from the end of the current one onto the new piece.

If I just bend the bar back in a vice I'm worried it'll snap!

Thanks!
James





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mookaloid

posted on 3/2/13 at 06:31 PM Reply With Quote
bend it back

worst case is you have to make a new bar. It will only be mild steel anyway.

use a bit of heat perhaps?





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Ben_Copeland

posted on 3/2/13 at 06:40 PM Reply With Quote
I've got one of those, lazer one was quarter of that price and i cant imagine that ever bending !!





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NigeEss

posted on 3/2/13 at 07:32 PM Reply With Quote
As said, just bend it back. That looks exactly like the kit I bought off the Bay for £20 !





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britishtrident

posted on 3/2/13 at 08:09 PM Reply With Quote
Straighten it in the vice.

You should have slackened the hand brake cable right off before you tried to wind the piston back -- the self adjuster in the calliper may now be history.
Then only re-tension the handbrake cable after pumping the pads out with the foot brake.

Calliper wind back cubes that fit in the end of a socket set cost about a fiver provided the handbrake is slack no excessive force is required just push and turn.





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Slimy38

posted on 3/2/13 at 08:14 PM Reply With Quote
I'd be more worried about what it's done to the caliper!! You shouldn't have needed to use that much force. The first time I did wind back calipers I found that the screw thread inside the caliper didn't quite match the thread of the windback tool, so I had to back it off every so often. If it needed anything more than what I could apply without leverage then I backed it off and then carried on.

Edit: Looks like Britishtrident just beat me to it...

[Edited on 3/2/13 by Slimy38]

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ASH3

posted on 3/2/13 at 08:24 PM Reply With Quote
Always bending ours back straight why
do manufactures fit such crap theirs no
need and why are some left handed!!! They don't
mark them as such






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britishtrident

posted on 3/2/13 at 08:28 PM Reply With Quote
All that is required to rewind a rear calliper.

Draper calliper wind back cube





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thunderace

posted on 3/2/13 at 08:32 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
All that is required to rewind a rear calliper.

Draper calliper wind back cube


i have that one and it dont fit a golf

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James

posted on 4/2/13 at 12:19 AM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
Straighten it in the vice.

You should have slackened the hand brake cable right off before you tried to wind the piston back -- the self adjuster in the calliper may now be history.
Then only re-tension the handbrake cable after pumping the pads out with the foot brake.

Calliper wind back cubes that fit in the end of a socket set cost about a fiver provided the handbrake is slack no excessive force is required just push and turn.




Hmmmm, maybe I should've asked about this in advance!

Ah, well, it's all seems to work ok so will hope I've not buggered anything on the car as well as the tool!

Cheers,
James





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mcerd1

posted on 4/2/13 at 09:44 AM Reply With Quote
I got one of these at the local motorfactor when I needed it that day - i think it cast me £10

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002V72SHS/?tag=hydra0b-21&hvadid=9550949469&ref=asc_df_B002V72SHS#productDetails

it should be possible to push them back my hand using something like long nose pliers to twist as you go - but the right tool make it easy



quote:
Originally posted by thunderace
i have that one and it dont fit a golf

its not one of those moden VW's with the eletric calipers is it ?





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