1984 Granada BOA; small progress & Civic 25/10/24

Yesterday I finally got around to getting my calipers painted up!
Still need to sort the leaky door seals and send the alternator off for rebuild tho

So starting at about 9:30 yesterday morning, I managed to remove 3 of the 4 calipers, and both rear caliper carriers.
One front caliper had 2 sticky pistons in it, so that was the first challenge of the day. And both front brake pipes were siezed in to the unions and consequently sheared off!

And the nearside rear handbrake caliper had been giving me grief so decided to sort that too.
Got that off and on the bench to clean up and strip down, which went surprisingly well.
Think I discovered the issue as well!




So all cleaned up and "just" rebuild it
The internal circlips literally just came out with a pick, getting it all back together again by myself was a different challenge. As the main body has a spring that needs to be compressed to get the circlip back in!
After several unsuccessful attempts with circlips pliers, I devised a devious plan!










As you may be able to work out, there isn't a lot of room to operate in there! But the valve spring compressor tool worked a treat

So today is brake pipe making and painting the last caliper .
And a teaser of one caliper back on with its new pipe support bracket (and I know there's no transfer pipe fitted)

So back to the workshop Sunday to get the blimmin thing finished off!

Replaced the front flexible hoses when I found them (safely stored in a jiffy bag in the car!), finish off the caliper painting and make the replacement brake pipes.
Offside front caliper with new link pipe fitted



Also drilled and tapped the upper wishbones each side to accept a P clip to run the flexible lines through and keep them out of the way of the tyres on full lock




And whilst the last caliper was drying, I refitted all the pads, and refitted the nearside rear caliper that had given me all the grief on Saturday!




The brakes were a bit of a fox picture to bleed out when all was assembled, but got there eventually. And had a very good brake pedal and functioning handbrake and no fluid leaks either!
So all good there




And an bit of an arty pic as well

Another week, another pain in the curse word day at work!
Yesterday was spent rewiring the power steering pump so that the relay for it isnt next to the pump, and instead up in the add on fuse and relay box.

So I started out with it looking like this




And too many hours later, it looks like this




Still need to sort out the drivers door skin, and speaker component placements so they match the passenger door. And sort out the leaky door rubbers, the leaky steering rack, transmission leak from the speedo cable, and the newest discovery of the coolant leak at the rear of the left hand cylinder head

Oh, and replace the main alternator cable, as there appears to be many amps missing between alternator post and distribution block on the inner wing

Always a lot to do on old cars, you fix one problem and another one pops up.
These rear brakes you have, what car is it from, Scorpio, Audi, Mercedes?
Is it easy to get approval for homemade brackets to mount calipers on? I don't think I would get away with it here in Norway.
The PAS pump, is it a good location in front of the wheel, what if it spring a leak and pour oil all over your wheel. That could potensially get messy.

Thank you very much

The pump is standard fitment on Saxo/106 with PAS, at the time of engine install it seemed easier and tidier for the engine bay to have the pump mounted out the way of the possibly hitter engine bay

Probably would've been easier to have retained the standard bracket with alternator and PAS pump on one belt, but then hindsight is a wonderous thing

It is in front of the nearside front wheel, it was noisy. But since sorting the wiring it has become almost silent!
And it will whine a bit when the fluid is low
The mount is mostly welded to the inner wing/subframe mount area, with the stainless steel bracket triangulating it. And it uses the original PSA pump mounting bracket with rubber inserts and has never vibrated though the car in use (only aurally hear the pump, even when it was at its loudest)

The main issue i have is the steering rack wasn't rebuild properly, and now fills the bellows with fluid if full lock is used!
So thats high on the priority list to sort really, and theres no core units to exchange with.

someones been busy,makes me want to get back on my garage dweller......
have you asked vic regarding the rack. he knows pretty much everyone with a granada. or you could try the bathside garage. they sorted me out with pas pipework when i needed some. they have entire cars.

I wouldn't mind being busy, but I didnt get half of what I wanted to done on Saturday
Blimmin wiring takes up far too long to do well i find

Second hand rack secured via ebay

Hopefully fit that and forget, or send one off for refurbishment