Rear brakes question?

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Lister John

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Hi All,

My new front calipers have arrived from Winns so Ive set to doing the brakes, starting with the rear first:

Someone had started this job before as there was only a feed to the o/s rear caliper and it wasnt linked to the n/s one.
Also the n/s driveshaft only had 2 bolts out of 4 holding it on!.....(I'll come to that later).

Anyway the new brake hose in the picture was one floating around in the boot which I thought would be the link pipe between calipers but its not long enough.

Which of the holes does the link pipe go in? ie supply to rears in top right, then out bottom right and across to top left with the bleed nipple going bottom left? (As you look at it in the picture)

As you can see I removed the diff to do this as its sooooo much easier.

Also has anyone got a spare 2 driveshaft securing bolts and spacing washers please? for my missing ones.

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As always many thanks from a "learning p6 owner"....John :D
 
You are missing a small metal brake pipe that goes from the NS calper up towards a bracket mounted on the top of the caliper dust cover. The hose that goes in between the calipers needs to be the other way around, screwed directly into the OS caliper, then go across and be fitted with a locknut to the bracket on the NS caliper. The special driveshaft bolts and washers are still available new. Both calipers should be free on the pivots. There are parts of the pad mounting shim kit missing too.
 
Thanks for a quick response,

Erm oh!.....What do you class as the caliper dust cover? and where can I get the bracket new or used?

Does it need shimms then? Only one of the fronts had shimms in when I removed them.

Thanks for your help, its much appreciated....John
 
The dust cover is the cover on the other side of the pivot to the pads. Shims used to come supplied with quality pad sets. You should be able to get the pipe steady bracket used from someone and probably a decent set of s/h shims/clips too. I'm not sure if they are still available new, but if they are I'd get new. Incidently, it's normally the hose between the OS caliper and the body that has the steel coil around it, not the one betweeen the calipers.
 
Lister John said:
Anyway the new brake hose in the picture was one floating around in the boot which I thought would be the link pipe between calipers but its not long enough.
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I think that hose is for the body to osr caliper. The link hose doesn't have the wire around it & is longer.
 
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