Best way to free up slightly binding calipers

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Post Tue Oct 03, 2006 2:36 pm

as above got some binding on all the touring calipers due to it being sat around most of the last year

drives and stops well just feels like theyre still holding the discs when you let off break etc

good old wd?? but where??

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Post Tue Oct 03, 2006 4:30 pm

Have you bleed the system, good start point, or just give the pot's a service with new seals :D :D
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Post Tue Oct 03, 2006 4:40 pm

go for a big long drive
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Post Tue Oct 03, 2006 7:00 pm

I used to have an MG Midget that had a) Rubbish brakes, and b) calipers that seized on a regular basis. To free them off I'd just work them - in with a level, out with the pedal. Do that enough and they should be fine... if not, you'll have to pull them apart.
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