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

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?

I've got one of those, lazer one was quarter of that price and i cant imagine that ever bending !!

As said, just bend it back. That looks exactly like the kit I bought off the Bay for £20 !

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.

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]

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

All that is required to rewind a rear calliper.

Draper calliper wind back cube

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Originally posted by britishtrident
All that is required to rewind a rear calliper.

Draper calliper wind back cube

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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.

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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

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

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