Request: Painting Calipers

[shebangs]

Looking for a nice howto to properly paint your brake calipers. Not a yum char job.

[Kazaf]

I'm also looking to learn how to.

[destrukshn]

take em off.. clean throughly, cover upt he slide boots and the slides. pistons, and bleeding nipples.
and start spraying a light coat.
wait.
the spray the next coat(s) until what your happy with.

put em back on and then bleed the brakes.

[Rasputin]

I just left mine on.

Removed wheels, lightly sanded the calipers. Masked off the areas I didn't want painted, and then threw a towel to cover them a little more.

Painted a light first coat, then kept coming back every 30 mins (not much drying time because I gave them each 5 minutes on the end of a heat gun (blow dryer for men, can get it for like $25-30) and ended up doing about four coats each. Didn't use a clear coat.

Make sure that you use proper brake spray paint, can be had from autopro/supercheap etc. You need this special paint since your brakes can get up to 700Deg Celcius, and other paints will just melt off.

[m3ntAL_l2]

put em back on and then bleed the brakes.

y bleed?

[destrukshn]

y bleed?

depends if you wanna take off the whole caliper or not.

[aka_NSX]

yeah if u want to do it properly better take off the whole caliper, but make sure u know how to bleed the brake after that, on mine i did about 5 coat

heres mine: