Painted my Callipers

dodgydave
Senior Member

472

03-05-2017, 11:11 AM

#1

Hi after some deliberation on what colour to paint my callipers I finally made up my mind and over the last two week ends have done it.

I took loads of pictures while doing this and as I had to strip my brakes down to paint the callipers I will probably do a separate thread on dismantling and re-assembling the brakes, if people think it would be of use.

So after much thought on the colour this is what I used.

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I started on the back first and after stripping everything down and preparing I was presented with this.

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I also wanted to paint the hub in the center of the brake disk. These have been renewed some time in the recent past and I wanted to get some paint on the hubs before they got too rusty. I used black Hammerite smooth for this.

The hub before painting.

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The calliper and drum after painting.

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PS. I realised after putting the wheels back on that I needed to paint further down the face of the drum so I did that the next day when I put the decals on.

While the paint was drying I decided to give the inside of wheels a clean.

before.

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and after.

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I know they weren't too bad but it made me feel better knowing that I'd done them.

and finally, the next day, after putting the decals on.

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Sparkystav
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03-05-2017, 11:17 AM

#2

Looks good mate!

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Lexusboy
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03-05-2017, 11:18 AM

#3

Dave that the best colour ops its because i have that colour too Smile

dodgydave
Senior Member

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03-05-2017, 11:25 AM

#4

Right and this week end it was time to do the fronts.

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To be honest these look like they've been painted before, at least the front part.

I removed everything, of cause with the fronts you can take part of the calliper off (I don't know what you call it).

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and after cleaning up.

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and then painting

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after putting everything back together

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and finally after applying the decals

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All in all not looking too bad.

As I said at the beginning I did take a lot of pictures during stipping down and re-assembling the brakes so I might do a walk-through if it would be of interest.

Dave :wink: