For the next bit, I rolled two jobs into one. Cleaning up and Painting of my Brake Calipers, alongside installing my new Eibach Hubcentric Wheel Spacers.
So first thing's first, I put the car up on the ramp and whipped off all four wheels.
I then removed the anti-rattle clips from the calipers and set about cleaning them up on the wire brush machine.
These have been painted black now, but are still drying.
Next, I noticed how my calipers already had some overspray on them, as it would appear my wheels have been refurbed on the car (Hmmff...)
So that had to be cleaned and stripped using a wire brush attachment on an air drill
After stripping with the wire brush and spraying over with a good dose of brake cleaner, here's how they came out:
Now time to mask stuff up! I tried to mask anything that'd be in the way of the spraying area to avoid overspray
Using Hammerite Smooth Silver in an Aerosol format, I gave the calipers their first coat:
The stuff seamed to coat well, but I still did 4-coats of paint overall to give a nice hard durable finish.
At this point, You can see a bit of overspray on the disc/pad but that's no biggie as I'll be replacing them fairly soon anyway.
On goes one of the wheel spacers using my new Schwaben Wheel install tool (Man this thing is a godsend!)
Such an Ace tool! Screw it in, Slide the wheel over, 4-bolts in, Tool out, last bolt in! Easy one man wheel swap with no faffing or misaligning the holes!
Finally a pic of one of the calipers through the wheel - looks like I'll be needing centre caps when the wheels get refurbed
And a pic of the car sat nicer with the spacers on: 12mm Front, 15mm Rear.
At the moment, I've left the anti-rattle clips off until they are properly dry, so that I don't tarnish the finish of them, but the car is going to be kept off the road for a few weeks whilst I strip and re-build the fog lights.
Overall, Happy with the job
Can't wait to get these fogs sorted.
