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The title length is limited unfortunately. The real title is “How To Diagnose and Replace a Rear Caliper Using an Infrared Thermometer”. I know I’ve done rear caliper videos in the past but never used this method for diagnosis. As stated in the video, it can be used for more than just brakes. In fact, temperature diagnosis is widely used in industrial applications. What are your thoughts?
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Re the question about the needle nose vice grips. . . If you don’t have fuel line to put on the end just use a rag wrapped round the brake hose. I’ve used that several times.
One quick thing I’d like to mention…. It seems I’m forever doing brakes and pretty much every time I’ve had the rust build up under the shim that you talk of, Eric. I just use a file to get the old crud off the caliper bracket. However what I have started doing is (once the brackets all de-rusted) putting a very fine layer of anti-seize under the shim.
I’ve recently had to have the back wheel off a friends car and while I was in the vicinity decided to check how the brakes were doing after using this method 6 months or so on. No rust build up at all. The fine layer of anti-seize had gone a bit crusty but I simply wiped it off and hey presto.. no rust build up 🙂
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