Changed the pads today after a fasion, not long finished, I had to use a breaker bar on the rewind tool, surely this is not normal, possibly sized caliper? I cleaned up the sliders and lubricated, one on each side was solid! This has stopped the binding.

Now I could not remove the handbrake cable from the offside caliper which was the first side I done and in the process the hook part of the cable snapped! I know you are supposted to remove this, but once snapped it was still just the same, this is when I eventually turned to the breaker bar!

I have another cable on the way as the current one is very rusty anyway so could do with a replacement.

Needless to say I did not attempt to remove the cable on the nearside and again I had to use the tool with the breaker bar and considerable force to wind the piston in!

I also whilst trying to remove the offside, removed the self adjuster spring, this is proving very difficult to get back on, as per the original problem when trying to remove the cable the mechanism is very stiff to move!

So the question is really does anyone have any tips for when I come to fit the new cable?

Thanks,


Martin