Re:My 01 Jimny, another Norwegian

Lucky the bimmer wasn't hot pink or poison green :laugh:

Started working om the car tonight, dont have many hours left for the jimny these days. Dismantled the left hub, housing was full of crap..

Abs sensor bolt snapped of as expected


Old brake parts and the new



Tie rod had to be chopped off, luckily i had spares!

Old bearing caps out, new seal and caps in

Thats how far I got, finishing tomorrow evening!

Nice jobb
Wich paint do you use, do you also paint where the dust seal is?
I'm about to start with over hauling the front end

Its normal car paint, PPG Envirobase and clear coat. The dust seals were masked off

Finished the job tonight, sort of.
Drilled and tapped the abs sensor bolt hole

Greased up and ready

Heres the old bearings, stuffed up good

New brake parts in, looking good among all the rusty parts :lol:

And heres how you bleed them


And then the right side

When i wrote sort of finished, the right side has to be taken down again.. i was just changing the seal on the housing, since i changed everything 1,5 year ago on that side. But apparently it have had enough time for water to come in so the bottom bearing was not good. Cleaned it out and greased it good, mounted it all together again. Just put a order in on BigJimny for new bearings and put in two tie end rods also, then I have changed them all.

Havent tried the brakes yet, but tomorrow after work i will run them in

You'll like the green stuff pads, they are very good even from cold and keep going once hot too.

Took it home again today. Its true what they say, the red calipers give you 5hp more! It feels quicker, i bet the fuel consumption decreases aswell. Doesnt have anything to do with the old calipers i guess.

I will bleed the whole system again when the pads are run in.

I saw changing the callipers as a "performance" mod, it certainly felt more spritely after getting the sticky old callipers off. I missed the gig with the paint though.....

I have the old callipers that I was going to rebuild for sale, I might paint them...

sniper

How are the new brakes doing, compared to stock ones?
I guess the diameter of the rotor is the same, only a bigger piston that makes better brake power?

Havent had a chance to test properly with all the snow, have forgotten about it now when its gone :lol: i have some air in the system still, but I can feel that its better. I will do the rear next

Mine feels great now braking with vitara calipers and vented rotors.
Not a proper comparison on my car as the old rotors where bad and the rear brakes were well oiled and greasy and i changed everything at the same time.
Quite sure the brakes was never this good, especially at speed.

Got a rusty caliper piston that needs attention soon, but not sure its worth all the fuzz with the vitara brakes.. Doesnt sound like an «upgrade» thats really noticable to be honest.. Vented discs are great, for cars that uses alot of brakes.. I barely use them on the jimny, even in steep`ish downhills.
No point throwing money at it, if it doesnt upgrade much.. But i`ll read up on it and make up my mind