...maintain your brakes
- Front non AP brake pad replacement
- Rob Bell's site has
these instructions.
- Front disc (240mm dia) replacement
- Rob Bell to the rescue again
here.
- Front AP brake pad replacement
- The AP calipers are very easy to work on. Once you have
the road wheel removed, knock out the two pad retaining pins
with a suitable drift. Remove the pad retaining spring (note
its orientation) and pull out the two pads, push back the pistons
into the caliper body using a stout screwdriver or flat bar
(check the brake master cylinderreservoir to make sure that
the hydraulic fluid being pushed back into the brake circuit
is not over flowing!). Clean up the caliper before replacing
the new pads. Check the new pads slide easily into the calipers,
file the edges if they bind. Apply copper grease to the backs
and top and bottom edges of the new pads, DO NOT GET ANY GREASE
ON THE BRAKE MATERIAL!!. Slide the new pads into the caliper
lining up the slotted holes with the pin retaining holes in
the caliper body, replace the pad retaining spring (note that
its the right orientation), and finally replace the retaining
pins, you will have to use a hammer and drift to seat these
into the caliper body. Told you it was easy.
- Andy Phillips also gives a step by step method
here on MG-Rover.org
- A fantastic 'How
To Change AP Discs and Pads' thread on the MG-Rover.org
forum by CJJ
- Rear OE brake pad replacement
- Again, Rob as this covered
here.
- Rear disc replacement
- Tony Thompson's site has this covered
here.
- craynerd on the MG-Rover.org forum posted
this thread as a how to replace the rear discs and pads,
indicating the differences between the rear and front 240mm
disc set up.
- CJJ, also on the MG-Rover.org forum posted
this thread on how to change the rear discs on a TF.
- Iain "The Broon" Brown produced
this picture rich How To on the MG-Rover.org forum.
- Tip !!
- When you are winding the piston back
in, ensure that one of the cut outs in the
piston is at 3 o'clock, this cut out engages
in a small pin on the back of the pad. If
the piston is not aligned, you will get a
10-15mm rust ring at the outer edge of the
inner surface of the disc due to uneven
pressure on the brake pad.
- Rear caliper replacement
- Fast Jan posted
this great thread on the MG-Rover.org forum, and
also here on the SWMGF forum (you need to be a SWMGF member
to view the thread).
- Brake hoses
- CJJ shows how to fit stainless steel braided hoses
in this thread on the MG-Rover.org forum. As ever, loads
of step by step photos. This could also be used for replacing
the standard rubber brake hoses.
- Hand brake maintenance
- Big brake upgrade
- A popular upgrade for those who do not have rims big
enough to accommodate AP calipers. Roger Parker
discusses the merits and fitting of such a kit on the
MGOC website.
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...fit 4
pot AP calipers
- an
excellent thread on MG-Rover.org by Dr Dave on fitting the 4
pot AP calipers that were part of the SP1 option on the TF.
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...upgrade
an F to a TF steering rack
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...fit
lowering springs on a TF
- Baracus posted
this 'how to' article on fitting lowering springs to a TF on
the MG-Rover.org forum.
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...replace your
track rod end
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...ball
joints
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...shock
absorbers
- F rear shock absorber bushes
- Replacing F hydragas units & fitting lowering
pins
- TF rear damper replacement
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...Lower
arm
- F Front lower arm replacement
- Roger Parker published
this great out to on the MGOC web site. This should could
also be used for the TF, just remember the suspension differences.
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...Throttle
cable
- CJJ again,
showing how to replace the throttle cable on the MG-Rover.org
forum, photos galore as usual.
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...Hub
adapters
- Mike Satur's
- Fast Jan shows how she fitted Mike's hub adapters
via this How To on the MG-Rover.org forum.
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...Gear
box
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