One of the rear calipers is sticking on our S40. It makes the handbrake stay slightly on then the wheel gets hot and it alarms Mrs K.
The piston moves in and out nicely and I can free the lever off with lashings of WD40 and it works fine for a while. I suspect that I'm going to have to fork out for new calipers at some point. However, a bloke I bought a car off once reckoned that soaking them in diesel over night fixed them permanently. I dismissed him as a nutter at the time but the other day someone else suggested the same approach.
I'm concerned that diesel would destroy the seals leaving me no further forward. Has anyone tried it and, if so, did it work?
The piston moves in and out nicely and I can free the lever off with lashings of WD40 and it works fine for a while. I suspect that I'm going to have to fork out for new calipers at some point. However, a bloke I bought a car off once reckoned that soaking them in diesel over night fixed them permanently. I dismissed him as a nutter at the time but the other day someone else suggested the same approach.
I'm concerned that diesel would destroy the seals leaving me no further forward. Has anyone tried it and, if so, did it work?
