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Hi guys, I'm going to paint my front caliber (Gen 3.5) this coming summer. Can anyone tell me the "How-to" on painting them without disassemble the whole thing from the rotor. Any suggestion is welcomed. Thanks
the easiest way if you don't want to take the caliper off and apart is by using folia-tec paint, as it was designed to be applied with a brush, unlike the cans of paint that you usually buy
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^ yeah comes with the whole kit, brake cleaner and what not, but if you have a few days id say take them apart and clean them proper and paint it all around..
go to the store and get a box for caliper painting. They typically offer blue, red and black paint. There is silver too. You can apply these types with brushes. I have tons of paint left after painting that ive been letting friend's use it and its still half full! So you can always go back and repaint.
It is best if you can take it off and it only involves taking off two nuts. ONce you get your wheel off it is kind of obvious which nuts are holding the caliper on.
In my opinion, its alot funner taking it all apart then putting it all back together. But I just did that to paint it correctly and have all the pieces uniform matched. But I believe its WAY easier using the spray paint can rather than painting it on. I had a hardtime using the paint brush method. It just didn't want to cut the mustand with me so I gave up using the paintbrush and just finished it off with spray paint.
Correct me if im wrong, but is it fine to spray paint the calipers still on. But the overspray can hit the rotors? Then just driving a little with scrap that paint off the rotors. Ive seen pictures of this. But didn't know if it was any harm? If no harm, you can try that method. Would be way easier if you didn't want to take anything apart.
Correct me if im wrong, but is it fine to spray paint the calipers still on. But the overspray can hit the rotors? Then just driving a little with scrap that paint off the rotors. Ive seen pictures of this. But didn't know if it was any harm? If no harm, you can try that method. Would be way easier if you didn't want to take anything apart.
yeah, the paint on the rotors will come off after a little driving, provided its in the path of the pads. but you should probly still cover up a lot of stuff so you dont spray your struts, brake lines, other stuff down there.
the only think you should really do if your gunna take it off is run down to kregans and get some vacume hose to plug up the banjo (thingy) so your dont leak your brake fluid all over the ground. course then you gotta bleed your brake lines...
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