My phone was a step away from death all afternoon, so I didn't grab any photos. Mark got a few though, and posted them on the Coupe Club forum. I'd post 'em here but they're not my photos, and he's not around to ask. I live in a 2-bedroom flat, so I couldn't even put him up for the night, so I'm paying for a B&B for him.
I had to go out and buy a complete set of calipers today; my rears were seized up (rusted to all hell, the pins wouldn't come out (or even budge, at all), the and the brake pipe union at the back of them was completely solid too), and the piston on the fronts was rusty and Mark couldn't get them pushed back down - the sliders were quite worn too. I got a set of brand new Pagid rears from EuroCarParts (Parts for Peugeots! In stock! Practically unheard of here!) and a refurbed pair of something-or-others on the fronts from Reids For Speed (again, parts in stock!)
Mark's words from the other forum:
Both pistons on the Lucas front calipers were seized, although the slider pins were serviceable. Discs badly corroded.
Both rear calipers in a bad way. Pad retaining pins totally seized in position, both slider pins seized rock solid, both brake union nuts seized into caliper body. Discs equally corroded.
Both rear rigid brake pipes from flexi to caliper had to be cut out due to seizure at caliper end. Two new ones were made up while Graeme was out shopping for parts.
Two front to rear brake lines are to be replaced as well...haven't looked at those as yet.
Graeme went out and spent some hard earned on four new calipers. Four new discs, pads and a fitting kit had already been bought.
On the n/s rear, there was a catastrophe about to happen. Someone had been in there before and had replaced the upper handbrake shoe retaining pin with a split pin. No problem with that, except they left the bent and mangled retaining pin inside the drum and it had got attached to the abs sensor (magnetically) and was within a hair's breadth of getting drawn into the reluctor ring. This would have taken out the abs sensor, chewed up some teeth on the abs ring and could have ripped out handbrake shoe fixings with potential locking up of the rear wheel.
New handbrake shoes and fitting kit will be going in as well.
There are two seat heaters to repair and a set of silver internal door release handles to fit while here before returning to Glasgow to complete works there on two other Coupes.
The front wheels should have tyres fitted and be ready for collection on Wednesday, so that'll be good. At the moment, she's up on axle stands. She's staying up there til Mark's had a look at the exhaust and the front-to-rear brake pipes.
I also have bulbs ready to fit, but I don't want to do those til the car's back on terra firma (I'm hugely paranoid about knocking her off the axle stands). And I ordered new front and rear number plates, just to tick that box off the advisories - just need to get them a copy of some ID.
I am very glad I didn't attempt the brake replacements myself, given how many things have gone wrong during the course of events, just getting the old crud-encrusted brakes off. I'd have gotten hugely pissed off and ended up breaking something, crushing myself, or just throwing in the towel and calling out a mobile mechanic (£££) who wouldn't be as clued up on all things Coupe as Mark clearly is.
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