A great Q&A DGG🤙

You called it a year ago. Props.

Did mine last summer, got the pistons out with air. But if I need to use fluid, is it OK to reuse that fluid? Or just throw it out? Saw that some of the fluid behind one of the pistons looked a bit suss. But the fluid you collected in the cup looked good?

Kent!

Might actually be able to watch this, I can’t do the 6 hour night live broadcasts,

You got lucky with that pin, and the lack of red rubber grease it just not acceptable. Kent.

I saw bonus content and I was hoping you'd be restoring a knackered old hotel van. 😞

pro tip I have a banjo fitting with an inner tube valve welded on so that you can slowly add pressure with a hand pump instead of a compressor

A friend in work had a cracked one of them (I think) on his busa and asked me to weld them back up then got pissed when I said no way 😂

Does the manual say split the caliper? I’m genuinely not trying to be a dick, but got to practice what you preach!

Alien 13 fkn hates Reg Local and the IAM. He's the ahole's ahole.

What media did you use to blast the caliper with?

Wow, this Gobbleknob know it all really has no clue has he.

thank you Matt for your tutorial and waiting for the next part😊have two questions, 1- i have the same rough texture on my Honda CB250F caliper surfaces. is it a result of its casting process ? sand casting or something ? 2- is there a specific reason for using a rubber seal in between two mating surfaces of the fluid passage ( that small Oring type seal ). just asking since we use copper crush washers to seal the banjo fittings instead of a rubber type seal. keep it up 👍

Great to see something done properly, unlike the usual and endless hacks around

Del could have done a far better job

What the fuck have you got on yer feet. Ya big puff. Shut that door.

god help del_bolocks doing these

Are they from the SV?

He may be called moonfleet, due to a farm/campsite in ansty cross (dorset) called moonfleet.

0:16 My missus was distracted cos your flies undone.😮 You wouldn’t get that sort of thing in Delboys Garage videos. 🤣

obviously not enough red rubber grease was used on the seals, Dell Balls has done a few videos if you need some advice

Is this for project Isaac?

IAM fixation on your bloody slippers cocker 😂

Why let them get into this state give them a little care now and then and not let them rot away.

thanks for a good tip there,regarding the wood bits

15mins in and you're doing it all wrong Matt, not wearing gloves so the image is constantly blown out and I cant see a thing. Your compressor obviously isn't powerful enough. You use it but its silent in the background. Obviously if it was a powerful one it would kick in after 6 seconds of use like a certain someones. You're using a vice to hold the calipers?! Come on now, everyone knows you hold them in your hand when working on them. Ideally over a table with a picnic blanket thrown over it. If you must use the vice then you only use it to hold tools. :D

Those calipers should be scrapped. You should never sandblast machined surfaces where seals are used, including the surfaces inside the grooves within the bores where the seals are located. This demonstration or tutorial is as bad as demonstrating a "hot" coolant change. Shame on you!

I can't see a thing you're doing due to the lack of black gloves - too much white!

This is the ideal result. No tools to grip on the pistons and potentially damage them. All removed and re-usable. There's quicker ways but they often result in you taking risks. You save yourself 30 minutes but damage a piston, now you're out of pocket and waiting a week for parts to be delivered or taking more time to ride down to a shop to get the part. Spend a bit more time doing it right or go full Rydel.

Good thing these calipers didn't have any fins. Or maybe they did and this is attempt no.2

I split my Triumph TT 600 4 pots , cleaned everything up a treat , all new OEM seals and pistons, but now when I put the halves back together and back on the bike they are being weird, The outer half is moving a lot when you press the brakes, enough so that it will weep fluid out of the caliper split line. Not sure what I can do different ? Does anyone have any ideas. Triumph manual says don't attempt to split them , but why can you buy new OEM split seals. My only thought is to tig weld the caliper halves together so they are rigid.

The unbleedable ones

That's not the same caliper. I saw the jump cut. 😂 nice work Matt. This vid should be called how to rebuild a caliper the correct way !

if there arent any replacement seals available dor my brake caliper, is there a way to find off the shelf stuff somehow, or if not, how do i choose a new caliper to buy so that it is not only compatible, but up to the task?

Good heavens, what happened, a vid of you actually doing something instead of ripping the piss... ... ...

Them seals are fine. Quick sandblast and pop 'em back in.

Are o-rings used between the fluid passage mating faces? Look similar to the Brembo P05's on the Pantah. Cheers

Did a set of these on a 99 zx6r I had a few years ago. Bought a kit from a company called powerhouse that included stainless steel pistons and those calipers were never a problem again. I think you did this the long way lol just split the caliper and pull the pistons out with mole grips and replace with the new ones too much faffing about there they weren't even that stuck and those pistons are better off replaced with the stainless ones the old ones are only good for the bin anyway.

Why didn't it take you 14 hours to bleed the caliper Matt, You doing it all wrong! 😆

Nice work Bro❤

Takes me back to when I rebuilt my GSX600 calipers last year, total ball ache. Had rear caliper rebuilt by a local caliper rebuilder & it took him a couple of minutes, he split the calipers first the use an expanding socket type thing in the pistons to twist and pull them out without any real effort. One of those piece of piss jobs if you have the right tools

Always hurts to see somebody take something apart thats in better nick than your own and hearing them talk about how bad it is 😂

Just split the caliper and pull the pistons out with an extractor. Takes minutes

I recently rebuilt a set of four pot Tokicos, complete twat to get the pistons out, the seals were in a very similar condition to yours.

those 6 pots are a pile of shite. bin them. nissin 4 pots from the bandit is a matched fit.

Del could've done this in a 9:36 video

Mmmmmhm dirty 😍

First, and my profile picture isn't some bird's behind

1:21:10 wankels are the best engines ever 😊❤