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MG MGF Technical - Doing your breaks

Hi All

Sorry if an answer has been posted in the past.

Is there a good site which will guide me throught fitting new disks and break pads on the F?

I would prefer an idiots guide if there is one!

Kindest Regards

Sunil

Also where is the best place to get them from? IS eurocar parts good ???
sunil kshirsagar

Try http://www.mgf.ultimatemg.com/MGF_diy.htm#Brakes for some hints and tips. Pretty straightforward. You may find getting the discs off tricky - but careful use of a hammer sould help (rotate the disc between strikes).

Remember too that the rear caliper pistons screw in, not press in.

Good luck
Rob Bell

Look at the thread in MGF Technical on Fitting New Brake Discs

-and learn to spell



Brian

Apologies for mungo spelling

:oP

Cheers Rob/ Brian

Kindest Regards

Sunil
sunil kshirsagar

>>>-and learn to spell

Cheeky!
David Bainbridge

"Learn to spell" has nothing on some of the slagging off I have seen on this BBS.

Brian

Ah shucks Sunil - I thought this was going to be a 'juicy thread' on what to do during your coffee break:-)

Ted
Ted Newman

One good tip, apart from what to do in a coffee break, is to try www.spareshq.com for the parts.

Front discs, pads and a tin of copper grease cost me £72.
Brian

I would love to oblige with a torrent of vitriol on the merits of erudite spelling but I am feeling benevolent at the moment.......

How right you are Brian, care to pop over to FW? :-)
SBD

Lord Chesterfield wrote to his son in the mid 1700s "Orthography . . . is so absolutely necessary for a man of letters, or a gentleman, that one false spelling may fix ridicule upon him for the rest of his life; and I know a man of quality who never recovered from the ridicule of having spelled wholesome without the w."

How times have changed.
David Dewick

I did put a :-) - smiley face after my remark! And I can assure you that if, like me, you have met Sunil there is no way you are going to take the pee! He is ten feet tall and built like the proverbial 'permanent outside closset' and would have old farts like me for breakfast.

Ted :-) :-) :-) - just in case he didn't see it first time
Ted Newman

What's a closset?
Brian

The same as a closet - with only one 's' at a time.

Ted
Ted Newman


I think that coffee breaks are an essential item in replacing the brake discs. I used a set of pullers and a good sized hammer and still failed to initially remove one disc. Eventually I left the puller on with some WD-40, and after a break did manage to hammer off the disc. Two of the 6mm screws that hold the disc onto the hub were destroyed during the process though, so needed replacements for these.
Richard

Success!

After changing discs and pads I got a brand new MOT certificate this morning.

Must have done it right.

Brian

This thread was discussed between 07/08/2002 and 15/08/2002

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