Got the wheels and outter bearing on. Now I need to buy some more brake fluid and finish bleeding the brakes. The whole process of swapping out the brakes will have taken a few hours, maybe up to 5 hours in total.
Got the discs on last night, hubs and bearing are in and on with new seals. Started bleeding the brakes, but I haven’t got all the air out yet. Turns out that my new studs, which I pressed in using the vice, weren’t that straight, so they hung up on the disk, although I did manage to beat them on in the end.
I made a start last night fitting the disc brake kit. I hit a slight stumbing block in the terms of the brake pipe, my flexies are metric and the kit comes with a standard imperial end, so I think I shall have to re-use the old pipes. I imagine they’re the same at the brake caliper end. I found that the old pipes will work just fine:
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