After disassembling the breaks and spending about 3 minths with the brakes disassembled, we finally rebuilt the calibers, rotors, and replaced the brake pads, both fronts and rears, which required these steps:
- Ordering the caliper repair kit
- ordering new brake pads and rotors for all 4 wheels.
- cleaning the brakes off and sand blasting them to remove the rust and any coating on them.
- Sending the calipers to be plated in zinc chromate.
- ordering new brake lines.
- removing the master cylinder to be cleaned and sand blasted for any rust or any gunk, gummed up inside.
- cleaning the metal brake lines by removing them and sand blasting (this is one of the worst things to clean/repair on the Porsche 914).
- Installing the new brake lines .
- Installing the new calipers, rotors, and pads.
This all started around August 10th removing the calipers on all 4 brakes, and ended on October 10th, bleeding the brake lines for a second time. The car doesn’t have much pressure going to the brakes when you press on the brakes, so the master cylinder might need to be replaced. Or we might have to tighten the brake cable.
All in all the brakes turned out fantastic and look amazing. the plating on them looks original, and the calipers will never have to replaced again. When the car has full pressure going to the calipers to squeeze the rotors, it will be a wonderful thing to feel.
Reese's 914-4 