| Installation Instructions: |
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1: Park your car in a well-ventilated area. Using the 21mm breaker bar,
loosen your lug nuts on all 4 wheels. Jack up car, and securely lower
it onto jackstands. Remove lugnuts and then remove wheel. You can do two
wheels at a time, but I used 4 jackstands and did them all at the same
time. |
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2: Inspect your caliper for dirt or rust (notice how nasty my caliper
is :( ) |
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3: Spray the brake-cleaner all over the caliper (it should dry very
quickly). After that, start to brush away the rust and brake dust off
the caliper. This may take quite some time. After about 20 minutes of
brushing away, i still could see stuff coming off it. Its up to you when
to stop. To help get the rust peices off, you might want to take a hammer
and gently tap the rust peices. When the rust peices come loose, you'll
see them turn black. Use the wire brush to scrape them away. |
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4: Using the newspapers, cover the roto and hub and use the masking
tape to connect the newspaper together (so the wind won't blow it away
while its drying).. Also cover the crossmember with newspaper, and Tape
some newspaper all along the inside of the wheel well, to protect from
overspray.
Use the masking tape to tape the various rubber fittings / brakelines
on your caliper, your bleeder valve, rotor, piston, and bolts (if you
don't want to paint them). I used tape to cover the backplates of the
brakepads. If you do this, MAKE SURE that the tape is on there. All
4 of my brakepad backplates are now painted with weird designs b/c my
tape didn't hold the paint out very well. I will probably just brush
over them later with the paint.
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5: Shake up the can of Caliper paint and quickly spray the caliper up
and down. Repeat until it is covered in paint, but be sure to do it in
quick sweeps rather than slow ones, otherwise the paint will run and drip
off. |
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6: Let it dry for a little. I put a total of 3 coats on each caliper
(and metal still shows through :( ). |
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7: While your waiting for the front two to dry, Go over to the rear
and inspect the calipers for dirt |
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8: Use the wire brush and brake cleaner to clean off all the crappy
brake dust and rust from the caliper. It took me about twice as long to
clean the rears than the front due to their strange shape and various
crevices |
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9: Cover the rear the same as the front. Be sure to cover the piston
and rotor from paint as it can affect brake performance if overspray gets
in there. Be sure to cover the TTL and cross member peices. I didn't,
thinking that the paint wouldn't touch them and I ended up getting paint
all over one of the cross members :( |
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10: Coat the rears with paint as described in step 5 |
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11: Apply a couple more thin coats and allow each coat to dry for 15-30
minutes. |
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12: after all the calipers are dry, carefully take off all the newspaper,
and masking tape to reveal the finished result (notice the paint got onto
the brake pad backplate and also on some other parts :( |
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13. Put your wheels back on, tighten the lugs to the correct torquespecs
and lower the vehicle back onto the ground. |
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14: Properly discard all newspapers and masking tape into the trash |
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15: Final Results (Front) |
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16: Final Results (Rear Drivers Side) |
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17: Final Results (Rear Passenger Side) |
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