petrv

How do you clean old calipers, that are rust all over? I brushed the rust down, but how should I make it near the cylinders? I need to remove the rust there, but I can't do it with brush.

Little rust is also in the groove for the dust rubber on the pistons, how to remove this? The pistons deeper are rust-free.

The rust is like this:

prelude1897

Have you tried using sand paper? It'll take a little longer if you use this method

OTT

Go to your local DIY and get a 'wire cup' drill bit and also a 'wire stem' drill bit, these just literally go onto your drill and will bring the rust of with a little effort without damaging your calipers, but watch the rubbers.

Longitud

seperate the caliper and the brakepad holder.
If you haven't done that already. you'll get some more space to work in.

britishlude

Use a dremel with those tiny wire brush attatchments you can get right in, then wash it thoroughly with brake cleaner fluid. Around the rubbers carefully use a screwdriver wrapped in a rag and go around the rubbers once the fluid has had a chance to soften the deposits. Once cleaned up give em a spray of rust preventer to stop em rusting up again.

krn.racer

ask to do it professional if you want it well done but if you dont care than i say you pull it apart and clean it with olive oil

Speedra500

Whats up with people and saying I want this done by a professional, every single time I have had something done to my car other than myself, I have had worse results rather than if I did it myself. I don't believe in what everyone calls "professionals" the people at auto shops are not professionals and do not have the ability to know as much about your car as you do. Think about it, you only have to know how to work on 1 car, mechanics and other people work on tons of different cars, granted they have a little more experience, if you just read some stuff you should have a greater knowledge of your own car than they do.... I think one of the only exceptions to this is availability of tools, but you really don't need any rare tools unless your doing some serious work, and even then you can rent or barrow those... Just thought i'd get that one off my back oh, and by the way, you could try penetrating oil also, that is made to decompose rust.

OTT

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Speedra500 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Whats up with people and saying I want this done by a professional, every single time I have had something done to my car other than myself, I have had worse results rather than if I did it myself. I don't believe in what everyone calls "professionals" the people at auto shops are not professionals and do not have the ability to know as much about your car as you do. Think about it, you only have to know how to work on 1 car, mechanics and other people work on tons of different cars, granted they have a little more experience, if you just read some stuff you should have a greater knowledge of your own car than they do.... I think one of the only exceptions to this is availability of tools, but you really don't need any rare tools unless your doing some serious work, and even then you can rent or barrow those... Just thought i'd get that one off my back oh, and by the way, you could try penetrating oil also, that is made to decompose rust.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Agreed. People dont take enough pride in their work; "just as long as the pay comes through every month..." etc

The_Todd

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Agreed. People dont take enough pride in their work; "just as long as the pay comes through every month..." etc</TD></TR></TABLE>
Agreed too....some things I can't do myself due to space and or tools, but what I would suggest is either a wire brush, steel wool or a dremel tool..... what was that about olive oil how or does this work???

Cottonwoodz

Get yourself 1 ltr bottle of coke, pour in bucket, put caliper in bucket(with the coke) and let it soak for 24hrs

OTT

Olive oil wont remove the surface rust.

..and that Coke trick works, Coca-Cola has been using it for years to clean the trucks apparently.

UA6 BALLER STATUS

I am also interested in how to clean my calipers and the disk brakes cuz mine are rusted, so what's the fastest, easiest, safest way to take the rust off?

OTT

Wire cup and wire tip to attach to a normal hand-drill

cost like £5

tekkynikality

somewhat OT, but how do you clean paint off the caliper?

Sephro

I would get a rebuild kit.. take the whole thing apart and rebuild them... Cost you less than $50 and they will be like new..

PrecisionH23a

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by tekkynikality &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">somewhat OT, but how do you clean paint off the caliper?</TD></TR></TABLE>

Aircraft paint remover or brake parts cleaner will work as well.

As for getting rid of the rust, use a wire tip drill bit as someone stated before. It's just that easy. If you plan on painting them, use a high temp paint.

noble4ws

to remove rust from the discs just drive it, take it easy for the first few days though

All M0T0R H22A

Use a DREMEL!

PrecisionH23a

Dremel's work but take longer then your conventional drill with a wire brush drill bit.

Question answered.