Thursday, July 2, 2015

Fresh paint The Brakes

Painted brake calipers can in reality construct your vehivle case acceptable.


You can add a custom touch to your motorcar provided you gloss the brakes. The rotors on your motorcar are naked metal and normally corrode and rust over date. Whether you colour match them to your automobile or gloss them a contrasting colour, you can indeed fix them except remainder. The colouring used on brake caliper is a high temperature epoxy treated dye that Testament not chip off your caliper when heated up. Before you can gloss your brakes, secure your motorcar on jack stands and remove the wheels.


Instructions


1. Loosen the lug nuts on Everyone of the wheels with a lug aficionado wrench. City a jack under the front of your machine, jack it up and situate a jack stand under Everyone of the front corners. Effect the equivalent with the back of the motorcar. Your owner’s tome tells you the fair residence to corner the jack and jack stands. Every van is slightly contradistinct in this action. Remove the lug nuts from Everyone revolve and then pull the wheels off the vehivle. Having all four wheels off at one chronology allows you to business your groove all over the vehivle as you prep and stain.


2. Clean the brake calipers with a bucket of soapy water and a sponge. Hose the calipers off to remove loose dirt and soap. Dry the calipers off with a towel.


3. Spray the brake caliper with brake cleaner and then scrub it clean with a wire brush and a clean rag. Avoid getting paint onto the brake lines or onto the visible part of the brake pad. If you do, quickly wipe it off with a rag. If you do happen to receive paint on the brake lines of pads, it will not damage anything or cause a safety risk.


Pour the hardener into the high temperature epoxy paint and stir it with a paint stick or Popsicle stick. You can purchase two-part epoxy paint at most automotive paint supply stores or auto part supply stores. Make sure you use high temperature paint as the surface of brake calipers get hot. You can also use a ceramic paint designed specifically for brake calipers or for painting engine blocks. If you use ceramic paint it may not require hardener.


5. Place one coat of the paint onto all four-brake calipers with a small hard bristle brush. Brake cleaner will not damage your brake caliper, brake rotor, brake pads or brake lines and it dries fast. The cleaner your brake calipers are, the better the paint will adhere. Make sure you remove all dirt rust and grease.4.


6. Place a second coat of paint onto each of the four-calipers within 4-hours of the first coat and then give the brakes 24-hours to dry before placing the wheels back onto the car.


7. Place each wheel back onto the car; tighten the lug nuts in place with the lug nut wrench. Remove the back of the car from the jack stands by jacking up the rear, removing the stands and then by lowering the car to the ground. Repeat the process on the front of the car and then tighten each of the lug nuts a second time.