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Bill Bettridge (Billb)
| | Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2002 - 03:26 pm: | 
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Does anyone know if stripped calipers can be hot tanked - or will it f**k up the seals between the caliper halves?
calipers are stripped and brake cleaner just isn't doing the trick and I have access to a hot tank.
Thanks,
bill |
muskyman
| | Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2002 - 03:42 pm: |
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i wouldent do it unless you intend on replacing the seals between the halves.
then make sure to retorque them equal/correctly when you rejoin them,or they will leak |
Paul T. Schram (Paulschram)
| | Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2002 - 03:59 pm: |
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Depending upon the composition of your "Hot Tank", you might be very sorry with the results.
Some hot tanks contain very corrosive compounds that are intended to be used only with cast iron or steel. Introducing anything else, be it inorganic (different metals), or organic (your seals) may find those compounds to dissolve. Most hot tanks are even corrosive to babbit bearings, hence the removal of cam bearings before hot tanking.
The question I'd ask now is why are you cleaning your calipers to such a condition? If detergents and elbow grease won't take the dirt off, the dirt probably doesn't need to come off.
Get a stiff brass brush, a can of spray cleaner and go to it.
Now, if you could put them into a vapor degreaser, that would be another story.
Paul |
Bill Bettridge (Billb)
| | Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2002 - 04:10 pm: |
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The calipers are cast iron, so wasn't to worried about that - but most likely you and musky are right about the seals between the caliper halves - I was hoping someone would say it was OK  I figured I had acess to a hot tank, so why not use it.
Putting a whole front axle under a friends truck and while it's completely apart, it seemed kinda silly not to make it all nice and pretty - even though he'll go dump it in the nearest mud he can find LOL
Thanks for the input.....
Bill |
muskyman
| | Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2002 - 04:26 pm: |
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now bill if you where to hot tank them
they would be clean enough that you could chrome them
that way your friend could say he has a custom
brake system at resale time
lol...been a long day |
Blue (Bluegill)
| | Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2002 - 04:34 pm: |
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I resealed my calipers late one night and spent a lot of time scrubbing the dismantled caliper. At about 3 in the morning and after about 8 beers, I stopped and asked myself what the hell I was doing....but damn, did they shine |
muskyman
| | Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2002 - 04:40 pm: |
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i'v woke up at three in the AM after 8 beers
sat up in bed only to relize that was the crossmember that just hit me in the head
shit now I'm bleeding the damn starter still needs changing. and I have to be on the road in 2 hours if I'm gonna make that hook-up at that gas station with my wheeling buddies .
oh what a life! |
Bill Bettridge (Billb)
| | Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2002 - 04:53 pm: |
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Don't even need to chrome 'em They've got a pretty spiffy zinc-dichromate finish already underneath all the gunk. Maybe I could the the whole axle housing in industrial nickel - that'd shine! Hell, the rocks would be scared to whack that diff - LOL
Bill |
muskyman
| | Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2002 - 04:55 pm: |
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oh god he said nickel
someone's gonna start talking guns |
Blue (Bluegill)
| | Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2002 - 05:05 pm: |
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nickel-plated P7M13....very nice..... |
muskyman
| | Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2002 - 05:14 pm: |
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lol
this place kills me.... |
Blue (Bluegill)
| | Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2002 - 05:15 pm: |
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LOL
>"sat up in bed only to relize that was the crossmember that just hit me in the head"
that killed me |
Ron
| | Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2002 - 10:05 pm: |
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Bill B,
What about a carb dip?
My solution is always castrol superclean but it etchs aluminium so keep it away from that.
Ron |
Bill Bettridge (Billb)
| | Posted on Friday, February 22, 2002 - 09:07 am: |
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Yeah - I'll just do it in the parts washer at Tom's or Trevors and scrub a bit.
Thanks All
Bill |
Disco Dad
| | Posted on Friday, February 22, 2002 - 11:58 am: |
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You could find a tranny shop most have a dishwasher type setup to clean the tranny guts,
I did that for mine last month |
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