When I bought the 240, the guy I bought it from mentioned that he’d replaced a couple items on the car not too long ago. One of those items were the front wheel bearings. Which true to his word, looked to have been recently replaced.
So I went about refurbishing the hub without replacing these bearings. As usual, I cleaned up the part with a wire wheel, then taped off the areas I didn’t want paint on. Next came rust proofing then primer making it ready for paint.
Have I mentioned that I get a little carried away at times? Well this time, as with most times, it was with tape.
After I had given it a coat of primer, I applied a coat of matte black and attached it to the strut assembly already on the car. I also added the radiator to the engine bay, which would eventually have to come back out. I just wanted to see if it still fit properly and what it looked like against the new paint.
Next on the menu were the brake calipers. Like all the other parts so far, I wanted to keep the original and rebuild to the best of my ability. This meant taking the caliper all the way apart, including separating the halves.
While this may be the easiest way to completely rebuild these brake calipers and refinish them to a like new appearance, it may have not been the best idea to do so.
The reason I say that is, although I feel that they look great and will undoubtedly function much better now that they’ve had new seals and pads installed, I’ve had a few bad experiences with brakes on other projects recently that leads me to believe that these will be a nightmare.
Even the most basic of braking systems can be a pain in the ass with as little as a fluid change and with this car I will have rebuilt the entire braking system and ran all new lines once it’s all said and done.
Fingers crossed, but when the times comes, I’ll most likely be able to look back at this and say I told you so, to myself.
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