Rear brake pads - finally got to do them but concerns

Yup, finally got to do the rear brake pads on my ZR160. Pengy's 'how to' thread and his help and advice was invaluable - thanks mate. Thank's to that thread, things all went more or less as they should (hey, I'm an amateur, I'm supposed do stuff the hard way).



Those horrid rubber boots nearly had me uttering intemperate adjectives - pengy simply says to 'install rubbers'. Hmmph. Must be something they teach at trade school and keep secret to the rest of us because the ruddy things refused to play ... all except one which popped into place first try with no real effort just to make me feel bad about the others.



My piston wind back tool worked a treat and by cripes it took a bit of effort to get things started. It was fascinating to see the piston wind in when you turned it clockwise and wind out again when you turned it anticlockwise. I'm going to have to pull one of these calipers apart one day, just to see how they work.



Now my concerns, and these are real. Pengy gives the torque wrench setting for the carriers at 108nm. Not only is that a hell of a lot but I only got one bolt out of the four up to tension before bailing out. Why did I stop? Well, fifty years of abusing and stripping threaded fittings has giving me a feel for when things are trying to strip and those threads started to feel decidedly... wrong. Similarly the calipers. Although the torque setting is quite modest, and I could only get a socket on the top ones, one of these bolts had that horrid 'I'm not happy' feel. Note: none of these threads actually let go but they didn't feel happy.



Overall, the job went well. Just under 4 hours from starting the job to taking the car for a test drive (lots of ducking inside to check the thread, lots of scratching my head, lots of just phaffing about, cleaning up, etc) which I thought was quite reasonable. Yes yes, I know, a professional would do the whole lot in under an hour.



I know I did the job properly, not because she stops properly but because one of the radiator fans started making horrid noises on the test drive - if she has to fire up a new problem, I've obviously cured the previous one.

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