Sold Dollywobbler's Honda S-MX - Provisionally sold

[dollywobbler]

Yes it had cambelt kit and water pump at 182956mile/km on the 19/9/16

 

Thought it did. Thanks. Alternator or AC compressor then (AC system still empty). Well remembered.

[dollywobbler]

There speaks the voice of a man with other functioning cars..

 

Why do you think I own so many?!

[320touring]

Why do you think I own so many?!

I tried that, they're ALL FUCKED

[dollywobbler]

Seat?

[320touring]

Seat?

Needs a front spring, clutch! and the handbrake is "insecure"

[dollywobbler]

Do you want to buy a Lexus?

[Talbot]

I tried that, they're ALL FUCKED

Story of my life. I had 16 vehicles at one point. ALL FUCKED!

[320touring]

Do you want to buy a Lexus?

Nah m9, previous owners were ruff;)

[dollywobbler]

More tinkerings.

 

Sadly, to no avail. Swapped the new caliper in, which had a nice, free-moving piston, but there's still a chirruping sound when I'm driving along. I'm wondering if the hub face has some crud on it, so the disc isn't quite sitting flush. It's bloody irritating. There are no witness marks that I can see, definitely nothing on the surface of either pad. I've been for a 15-mile drive, and it's still doing it. BAH.

 

Also, it now clunks when I apply the brakes going backwards. It never used to do that.

[twosmoke300]

Are the top and bottom pad shims ok and present ?

Ref the clunking - I’ve had to use high temp silicone to stick the pads to the caliper piston and the two lugs before to stop this on hondas. Some pads now come with sticky backs .

 

The other noise - not the back plate rubbing is it ?

[twosmoke300]

Oh and some Honda brakes have little wire clips that push the pads apart to stop noise . Could be missing ? Usually have two small holes radially in the outer edge of the pad if they are supposed to have the wire

[dollywobbler]

All the clips are there, but you've just reminded me that the old pads had a chunk of (badly degraded) rubber on the back, perhaps to stop that noise. Backplate seems a good distance from the disc. The noise gets a little quieter on brake application.

[dollywobbler]

I'm an idiot. You knew that already. The squeak was driving me mad, so I had the nearside caliper off the Honda last Wednesday. With the disc off, I noticed a very slight scuff on the backing plate, under the hub of the disc. I carefully adjusted the backing plate slightly with a hammer, refitted it all and the next day, set off on a 120-mile drive. I noticed that the horrible clonking seemed to have disappeared from the nearside. Hmmm. 

 

However, the clonking was very much worse on the offside. Ah. By this stage, I was pretty convinced it was the caliper carrier bolts. The kit I'd used had new bolts, and they hadn't seemed awfully keen on being done up tight. I decided to investigate at the first opportunity. I was loaned tools by SNG Barratt.

 

Esteemed company or what? Sure enough, I could wiggle the caliper in a way that shouldn't be possible. But, the bolts just wouldn't tighten up enough. So, we raided the stores for some chunky washers. Fitted them under the bolt heads, job's a good'un! Horrible rattle gone.

 

I do think it's time to consider moving this one on though. Yes, always the way just after splashing a load of cash on it! If anyone fancies some oddball JDM action, then let me know. I may even get around to sorting the roof paint if you're lucky.

[dollywobbler]

Posted a video about the Honda on YouTube, and now someone has 'reported me' for dangerous brakes. I 'should not' be using spacers or washers according to this great sage. Sounds like guff to me. After all, you can buy caliper spacer kits for a load of cars to enable you to fit bigger brakes (not what I've done here, they're the same size, just a slightly different offset). It's true I'm no engineer (had you noticed?) but I'm a bit of a loss with this one.

[Datsuncog]

^^Sounds like guff to me and all. Helped a friend fit bigger Capri discs to his Cortina Mk3 a few weeks back, with spacers fitted to the rebuilt calipers and everything torqued down nicely. Went through the MOT on Monday with no issues mentioned from the examiner.

 

Well, no issues with the spacers...

[3VOM]

Posted a video about the Honda on YouTube, and now someone has 'reported me' for dangerous brakes. I 'should not' be using spacers or washers according to this great sage. Sounds like guff to me. After all, you can buy caliper spacer kits for a load of cars to enable you to fit bigger brakes (not what I've done here, they're the same size, just a slightly different offset). It's true I'm no engineer (had you noticed?) but I'm a bit of a loss with this one.

What are the consequences? Demonetised? Banned for a bit? It's one of those things where you will always get someone who has an extreme opinion and the internet (in places) allows them some small platform to propound their views and get a response.

 

Edit to add: If any of us were to try hard enough, we could find something "wrong" with 99.9% of the cars on the road.

[Cleon-Fonte]

I was quite amused by that comment. He sounds like the usual type of crank who goes around YouTube desperately trying to find something to be outraged about, whether or not that outrage has any rational basis. Thank him impolitely for unsubscribing then ignore.

[louiepj]

The only issues I can think of from adding spacers to a caliper carrier would be the carrier hitting the brake disc (noisy) or brake pads not seating correctly into carrier and then onto brake disc(you would see it). The caliper itself 'floats' anyway to provide equal braking pressure to both sides and will not be effected by your washer spacing mod.

 

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[dollywobbler]

The spacers came with the discs, to deliberately adjust the centring of the disc within the caliper (as the offset is slightly different). I've added further washers under the bolt head because the bolts that came with the kit seem to be a few mm too long. That shouldn't affect the caliper position at all.

 

Frankly, there is part of me wishing I'd just stumped up for genuine discs and pads. I think it would have been a lot less hassle.

[They_all_do_that_sir]

The spacers came with the discs, to deliberately adjust the centring of the disc within the caliper (as the offset is slightly different). I've added further washers under the bolt head because the bolts that came with the kit seem to be a few mm too long. That shouldn't affect the caliper position at all.

 

Frankly, there is part of me wishing I'd just stumped up for genuine discs and pads. I think it would have been a lot less hassle.

Let haters hate or something to that effect.

 

In the motorcycle world it is normal practice for all sorts of shimming, bracketery and the like to make calipers fit different bikes.

 

My ZZR1100 has 4 pot calipers, it's a common mod to fit 6 pot GSXR calipers. They use smaller mounting bolts so the accepted solution is either inserts in the fork leg OR shouldered bolts which are 10mm for the fork leg and 8mm at the caliper..... And with shims to space the new calipers out accordingly.

 

It's completely accepted practice, no nuns or kittens die if it's done to a good standard and MOT testers across the land don't blink and eye.

 

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[dollywobbler]

I think I may have let one detractor get to me a bit much. I guess I do take comments seriously (and to be fair, 99.9% of my comments are really nice!).

[They_all_do_that_sir]

I think I may have let one detractor get to me a bit much. I guess I do take comments seriously (and to be fair, 99.9% of my comments are really nice!).

YouTube has some odd angry people lurking. I posted up a video my friend took of me towing a caravan with the XM and got this:

 

 

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[dollywobbler]

Yes, I get surprisingly little of that. Apart from one angry Malaysian complaining about the 'muck on my cheens.' Not a beard fan.

[vaughant]

What dimensions are the bolts? I may* be able to acquire you the correct length but would need some specs.

[dollywobbler]

What dimensions are the bolts? I may* be able to acquire you the correct length but would need some specs.

 

It's ok. My dad is in the trade if I want to sort it out properly. But thanks.

[twosmoke300]

Why did you go for discs with a different offset ? Are normal pattern ones not available for it ? Seems alot of potential aggro for no gain

[sam simmons]

As a ex Reliant Scimitar owner shimming and spacering (is that a word) is common and i have used spacers on my brakes over the years when upgrading them...all without issue

[andy18s]

Yes, I get surprisingly little of that. Apart from one angry Malaysian complaining about the 'muck on my cheens.' Not a beard fan.

Sure he's not complaining about your dirty Levis ?

lol (cos no smilies)..

[artdjones]

YouTube comments are often written by people with no sense of proportion.Just look at the tree felling videos.33% say "good job".33% are total nitpickers, usually from what sounds like a position of complete ignorance.The next 33% say "why did you cut down that lovely tree,it did you no harm".This to professional lumberjacks.That leaves the 1% who issue random death threats.

[Datsuncog]

YouTube comments are often written by people with no sense of proportion.

 

What???!

 

I keel you for making such wild generalisations.