It was a bit of a battle but the car is back together now.

All seems to be working from my short test drive - I probably shouldn't
have but for my own piece of mind I gave it 3 40mph emergency stops -
enough to get the ABS to kick in.

Pulled up straight and quickly.

I'll do the fronts on when I'm on holiday in August - there's a bit of
meat left on them yet.

Also did the cheapskate thing of swapping fronts that are only about 1mm
from the wear markers for the almost pristine rears..... can't afford a
pair of car tyres after spending a few hundred on tyres and servicing
the bike before we go to France.

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Steve H 'You're not a real petrolhead unless you've owned an Alfa Romeo'
http://www.italiancar.co.uk - Honda VFR800 - MZ ETZ300 - Alfa 75 TSpark
Alfa 156 2.0 TSpark Lusso - Passat 1.8 Turbo SE - COSOC KOTL
BoTAFOT #87 - BoTAFOF #18 - MRO # - UKRMSBC #7 - Apostle #2 - YTC #

In article <1gzpbem.qsikg514evww0N%steve (AT) italiancar (DOT) co.uk>, SteveH
says...


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Conor

-You wanted an argument? Oh I'm sorry, but this is abuse. You want room
K5, just along the corridor. Stupid git. (Monty Python)

Conor <conor.turton (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

Heh, not that bad, but I went through half a tub of Swarfega cleaning
myself up afterwards. Had brake dust *everywhere*.

Next time, it'll go to a garage, but I doubt I'll ever need to do the
rear brakes in the time I own it.
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Steve H 'You're not a real petrolhead unless you've owned an Alfa Romeo'
http://www.italiancar.co.uk - Honda VFR800 - MZ ETZ300 - Alfa 75 TSpark
Alfa 156 2.0 TSpark Lusso - Passat 1.8 Turbo SE - COSOC KOTL
BoTAFOT #87 - BoTAFOF #18 - MRO # - UKRMSBC #7 - Apostle #2 - YTC #

Depresion <blank (AT) 128 (DOT) 0.0.1> wrote:

As usual, the Haynes BoL was useless.

'Replace caliper and tighten retaining bolts to xxNm torque'.

Not quite as easy as that.

How many grunts is a Nm?
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Steve H 'You're not a real petrolhead unless you've owned an Alfa Romeo'
http://www.italiancar.co.uk - Honda VFR800 - MZ ETZ300 - Alfa 75 TSpark
Alfa 156 2.0 TSpark Lusso - Passat 1.8 Turbo SE - COSOC KOTL
BoTAFOT #87 - BoTAFOF #18 - MRO # - UKRMSBC #7 - Apostle #2 - YTC #

"Conor" <conor.turton (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote

New Haynes rating system?

In article <1gzpor1.ckxgip3ckkhfN%steve (AT) italiancar (DOT) co.uk>,
steve (AT) italiancar (DOT) co.uk says...
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Carl Robson
Car PC Build starts again. http://smallr.com/rz
Homepage: http://www.bouncing-czechs.com

Sleeker GT Phwoar <carl.robson (AT) bouncing-czechs (DOT) com> wrote:

Heh. Seems like I got the 'gruntage' just about right, then.
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Steve H 'You're not a real petrolhead unless you've owned an Alfa Romeo'
http://www.italiancar.co.uk - Honda VFR800 - MZ ETZ300 - Alfa 75 TSpark
Alfa 156 2.0 TSpark Lusso - Passat 1.8 Turbo SE - COSOC KOTL
BoTAFOT #87 - BoTAFOF #18 - MRO # - UKRMSBC #7 - Apostle #2 - YTC #

"Sleeker GT Phwoar" <carl.robson (AT) bouncing-czechs (DOT) com> wrote

i've tried doing brake pads....... once........ ended in a snapped bolt in
the rear caliper and a trip to my mate stuart sorted and carl gibbs has
never mentioned any probs hehe