Today was another Fiero-day ..or not all day, had to take care of the kids most of the day, but in the end of the day i could start top remove the wheels and disassemble the front brakes.

First I tried to remove the banjos, and pus back the pistons.. no no, stuck.. I had to remove everything.

Started with the left one, and removed the caliper, then I had to put it back again to be able to push out the piston ..with the piston out and the caliper on the workbench I could see that
the dust boot was seriously broken, I also noticed that it was this phenolic(?) pistons in the caliper, and that it got stuck hard if I pushed it in.

First I thought the problem was that it was oxide in the groove for the seal, so I cleaned that, then it worked a bit, but then got stuck again.

I had to sand out oxide from the pot, and clean the pistons with fine sandpaper before it finally moved easy.

When it did I cleaned everything, remounted the old seal, the piston, the broken dustboot and mounted the caliper on the car again, filled the brakefluid and called for my girl so she could help me with the air-bleeding
and everything seemed to work, it stopped the wheel, and then was loose again, just as it should be.

Then I did the same procedure on the other wheel, it was the same, oxide both in the groove and the pot, but here the bleeding nipple was round, so i had to remove it with force, and then I didnt have a new one,
this size (M10x1.5) seem to be very uncommon so none of the shops near me had any home.. what to do.. I used a file and made it one size smaller ..got some help with the air bleeding again, and everything worked,
now I put the wheel back and the car back on the ground, moved the 9-5 Aero that was in the way and took it for a test drive.

It worked fine, the brakes is not on anymore, the brakes is not very effective by todays standards but it is a car from 1987 and I readed that they wherent that impressive as new either, so I guess it is like it should be.

Now I have to go back to bilprovningen and do a check again, if I do it within 1 month they just check what failed the last time, and both the light and the brakes should be ok now.


..Yes.. the test drive..

This ewas the first time I drove the car "for fun", so I took it to a curvy road to see how it was, well, im not 100% friend with it yet but it sure is a sport car, it handles pretty well and the power is ok (but I wonder how it will be with better gasonline, the gas in the tank is over 10 years old..), its a bit hard to shift fast, but I guess that is because the problem with the selector wire. Also sometimes when shifting down it make a exhaust boom, just like my motorcycle.. not very common on fuel injected engines.. should I worry ? ..I also have problems when shifting from 5 to 4, if I am unlucky I get this bad sound because I hit R by accident.. Its not that I am not used to manual cars, nearly all of my cars been manual and most have had the same layout on the gears, its just that if I drive on 5th gear on one of my celicas and pull the lever to me it aleways go directly to 4, if i want R I have to push the lever to the right. ..I dunno if it is because of the selector wire, or if it is by design.

But, I'm pretty sure I would be quicker around most tracks if i was driving my Celica GT, not to mention the GT-Four.. but I think the 9-5 Aero would be slower, even if it have 250hp and the sport chassi/brakes/seats.. even if you make a standard car sportier (i.e Aero) its still built as a big heavy car made for transporting families.

[This message has been edited by Repulsiv (edited 06-08-2018).]