James
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| posted on 3/2/13 at 06:23 PM |
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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
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| posted on 3/2/13 at 06:31 PM |
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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?
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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Ben_Copeland
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| posted on 3/2/13 at 06:40 PM |
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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
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| posted on 3/2/13 at 07:32 PM |
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As said, just bend it back. That looks exactly like the kit I bought off the Bay for £20 !
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britishtrident
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| posted on 3/2/13 at 08:09 PM |
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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
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| posted on 3/2/13 at 08:14 PM |
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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
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| posted on 3/2/13 at 08:24 PM |
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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
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| posted on 3/2/13 at 08:28 PM |
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All that is required to rewind a rear calliper.
Draper calliper wind back
cube
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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thunderace
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| posted on 3/2/13 at 08:32 PM |
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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
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| posted on 4/2/13 at 12:19 AM |
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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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"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."
- Muhammad Ali
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mcerd1
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| posted on 4/2/13 at 09:44 AM |
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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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