brake caliper painting

from this write up it seems like i only need to remove the cap of the reservoir?

http://www.acura-legend.com/vbulletin/f13/g1-disc-brake-pad-rotor-replacement-diy-photos-67976/

That diy is for replacing the brake pads and rotors, not painting them. If you can paint them while attached to the brake lines then you don't have to mess with the brakes. If you want to remove the calipers to make cleaning and painting much easier you will need to remove the caliper from the brake line. I would keep the cap on so that all the fluid does NOT come out and plug the line if possible. Then you will need new washers when attaching the lines back to the calipers plus then bleeding the brakes afterwards. When replacing pads you have to push the calipers open and that is why you have to remove or open the fluid reservoir cap.

okay, and since i am removing the brake pads do they need to be resurfaced? :/ god i know NOTHING about brakes

They best thing for you to do since you don't have experience is get the caliper kit where you use a brush instead of spray paint. (brakes are nothing to play with!)

:hide:looks good orange!! i'm just woried about the longevity of it, haha... and bigboy... i'm kinda stuck with where i'm at, car is on jacks completely dissasembled with the breaks and a can of the spray version... so i'm gunna tape off the back part and just go at the parts that are visable... i've spend hours watching diy's on other cars break calipers so i think i'll be ok?:hide::hide::hide:

actually i will spray into a plastic container and brush that on, should work ok i hope... haha

not bad, did you do the rears also?

looks good man im having mine rebuilt and painted the same color as the car!

oh snap man you need to build you build thread on here!

compared to you this is nothing! lol.

BIGBOY said:

compared to you this is nothing! lol.

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i wouldnt say that! its all about builds everyone can learn from builds even me!:thumbsup:

^ took your advice, build thread started!

Bgould said:

:hide:looks good orange!! i'm just woried about the longevity of it, haha... and bigboy... i'm kinda stuck with where i'm at, car is on jacks completely dissasembled with the breaks and a can of the spray version... so i'm gunna tape off the back part and just go at the parts that are visable... i've spend hours watching diy's on other cars break calipers so i think i'll be ok?:hide::hide::hide:

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It actually last a pretty good while I did my orange g1 calipers 2 years ago they Need redone now but I think it was just were there a brighter color then my 91s red calipers

dam the custom acura logo looks nice

BIGBOY said:

^ took your advice, build thread started!

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yea im tuned in for sure i forgot about your mirriors to lol see i may need to add that to my build lol