Odd noise from rear brakes?

[jasper5]

30 minutes each side to change those shoes

Only joking, they aren't a fun job

[Doggy]

Didn't Santa bring you a watch with both hands?

Oh well, back to the freezer......

[puggy]

I'm with you all the way with this one doggy , it's as though i can feel
the cold and the pain when your hand slips and you take the skin off a
knuckle

Looking forward to the piccies

[Doggy]

Knocked off for eats - NSR back together, OSR stripped down - had to drill BOTH pins out of this one.

Guess I'll get it back togeher alright this evening and it'll be driveable, which is good. But I won't have touched the fronts, or the rear suspension arms, or the front drop links. MOT's due Friday, needs taxed, but at least puggy's cheering me on.....

[Doggy]

Right, doggy's on the road again.
Here's the discs / shoes. one detached lining, flats on all four.


...and the pads. one completely gone, friction material detached on the rest.

...and the pins.


Sorry about the picture quality - I can't seem to do close-ups.

Thinks I may stick to the day job...

[teamster1975]

Crikey o Riley, what a mess doggy!
If it makes you feel any better I was out with the inlaws all day

[jasper5]

Great job Doggy

Those pins are a real pig when you have to drill them out, you need infinite patience getting those out.

Well done

[steve_earwig]

Holy sheep!! The whole lot looks very bad, when did you check them last? (Miss Whiplash is ready for you should you give the wrong reply to this question )

I can't seem to do close-ups.

No macro on your camera? It's an ickle picture of a flower on mine

[Welly]

Hey, come back......don't forget meeeeeeeeeeeeeee

At least it stayed put

Horrible, horrible job Doggy and really cold too

[mjb]

30 minutes each side to change those shoes

Only joking, they aren't a fun job

Took me well over an hour each side just to put the new shoes on my coupé... Getting the old discs off was another fun job too...

[Doggy]

Now for the latest thrilling installmant, or how Doggy takes on the T55..... and wins!
(No, not the obsolete soviet main battle tank, the pesky torx screws that PSA saw fit to attach the front calipers to our beloved 406's wiv).

As it was a fine, cloudless morning and a positively balmy -1 degree, I set about changing the front discs / pads only to find I didn't have anything to fit the caliper mounting bolts. Came back in, thawed out, booked MOT for Monday, (mainly to delay going outside again), then set off for the local motor factors / accessory shop in daughter's 206SW.....

Picks up a set of impact torx bits (up to T60, £7.99, not too bad), plus another set of flat wiper blades as the current ones are showing poorer contact after 18 months or so). 'Did you say 406, please? - that not 406, that 207', ventured the sage-like proprietor. I thanked him for his concern, observing that the ride quality of the 406 on 3 wheels and a trolley jack would probably have been marginally inferior to the '207'.
Total £28.00 Ah well, gets it done I s'pose...

Back to the Dogmobile, only to discover I still don't have a torx bit to fit - I've now got a T50 & a T60, but I need a T55!

Changed the original torx bits for a more comprehensive set, which unsurprisingly stung me another £8.

This time everything went smoothly, apart a nervous moment or two wondering which would give first, T55 bit, impact 1/2" - 3/8 adapter, 2' breaker bar, 3' lump of box tube.........but the screw undid first.
So pads out, caliper off, disc off, effortless! all back together - onto the other side, just aboput wrapped up, connecting the pad wear sensors, when I noticed one wire was too short.
Odd that these two connectors are a different colour to the other side.
Yep, plonker here's only mixed them up. (there's 2 short wires with black plugs & 2 long ones with white plugs)
So I had to take the first set out again & put everything back the right way.
But all back together now, only leaves the rear suspension arms to swap.

One surprise - the old pads were about half-worn, after 2 years / 40k - that's really good going in my book, most cars I've had have needed front pads at least every 30k.

[Doggy]

Both rear upper suspension arms changed today - went easier than I expected.
Probably a good thing I soaked everything in WD40 last week. We'll see what Monday & the MOT bring.

[steve_earwig]

By easier do you mean it all came to pieces a doddle or it didn't put up so much of bastard fight as the brakes? Sounds like you're getting there anyway, good luck with the mot!

[Doggy]

Well, it passed the MOT.

Advisories on brakes & handbrake - only just met limits, but he could see it had all new discs etc. so reckons it just needs to bed in.

Sailed through emissions test despite no cat or FAP.

[jasper5]

Excellent result

Well done