Rusty BMW E30 325i Brake Caliper Restoration
Today I restore a BMW E30 325i Brake Caliper! Car brakes are always a fun projected to take on. Anyone can do it and it's relatively cheap to do.
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Just for the record, I personally wouldn't have red calipers on my E30. The red just looked too good on camera not to go with it.
Firstly I inspected the caliper for ware and tare and decided to order a full caliper service kit. I then disassembled it and degreased the main pieces. Once they were dry I placed them in the blasting cabinet and removed 99% of the rust. I then had to go over with a steel wire wheel, on a rotary tool to remove the rest of the deep rust. It was then a matter of masking all of the threaded holes and piston cylinder.
The caliper then needed etching, priming, colour, and lacquer. Once dry I made sure the grooves in the cylinder were free from any rust or paint and began adding the new parts. I started by greasing the first gasket and pushed it in. The outer seal was then added. I then greased the piston and pushed that back in. The two guide pins and their rubbers were silicone greased and pushed in. The two pieces then came together with new bolts. The cleaned bleed nipple was then added, and the red cap to finish the restoration.
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For all of you E30 fans out there. The start of the BMW E30 325i Sport restoration series is coming soon! Although the project is a quarter of the way through, I'm going to backtrack with photo's and bring you guys up to the current day. I also wanted to thank everyone subscribed for 200K!! A KZhead and Patreon give is coming very soon! Make sure you are subscribed for auto entry. Thank you everyone!
I vote for this!
Ahh so you are doing a complete E30. I was wondering why you were restoring all of these parts and hoping this would be the case. As I have several project vehicles myself i'll be following that series closely. As an aside. It's awesome that they make rebuild kits or at least offer the parts individually to rebuild those calipers! Looks like E30 support is still strong. The 3 series is just excellent.
I went to the comment section to suggest an e30 restoration series because it seemed as if you own one, was very pleased to see that this is already going to happen!
Restore It could you list the names or give links to where you purchased replacement parts?
What painting system do you use?
Protip: Take some brake fluid on your finger and coat the piston seal and a coat the bottom half of the piston also. The piston will go in a lot easier and the seal won't dry out if you don't plan on using the part for a while. Also, install the dust cover on the lip of the piston first then press it into the caliper after the piston is seated in the bore, then press the dust cover into the recess of the caliper.
Great tip! Thanks for info.
That E30 must be really lucky to have you, restoring it!
I feel like to have it!
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I LOVE that you're literally restoring almost every piece of the e30, rather than replacing a lot of the parts. I love these silent resto videos, and I love car resto-modding vids. Best of both worlds.
Utterly great videos. Your work has definitely inspired some DIY work that I've gotten into, no doubt it's happened for others too. Very excited to continue see the car coming together, piece by piece. Cheers.
I love these videos. The amount of effort and time involved in restoring heritage automotive parts really adds to the value of the part. If someone has to spend days restoring one caliber, it highlights that sometimes it to more economical to buy a new part.
True. And spelling is CALIPER or CALLIPER. "Caliber" is a totally different word,
The amount of satisfaction this brings is immense. Proud e30 owner here! Stellar Job!
No BS and fluff, straight to the point. I love it.
After degreasing I would have thrown it to a bath of phosphoric acid for a day. Cleans up every nook and cranny, doesn't harm the parts and usually no need for a wire brush afterwards. But nevertheless, good job and props on using silicone grease on the slide pins!
Excellent colour choice and congrats on 200K!
Cant imagine mines looking so badly rusted. But i can imagine the difference of additional stopping power after a clean up like this. Such a satisfying proces. Great video
Awesome job!! This kind of stuff is fascinating to me! I could watch these kind of videos all day long. I looooove the no music style, very relaxing to have just the sounds of work. Peaceful. Thank you for sharing you projects and skills with us. I really appreciate your level of detail and precision, it’s very satisfying to watch, I’m sure it’s even better for you to experience it first hand. Great job on this channel I’m a huge fan of your work. Good luck and keep it up, you are appreciated my friend
This is a very good job. Congratulations.This men is a amazing vorker. Mitar
More E30 restorations!!!
A whole series perhaps?! it’s coming!
@@RestoreIt yes sir!
Frame off restoration!!!!
@@RestoreIt i would like to see a hole series on the e30
I just done my calipers up, with the slide rails I was so pleased you applied the correct lubricant, so many ppl use grease and either too much or not enough anyway, also not knowing the repercussions using the wrong lube, wear and leakage causing contamination ti the pads. I 2k'd myne aswell only I mucked the shoe clearance with paint, however no big deal as I fixed that with my dremel. Good work Steve. Take care celebrating 2019 mate. All the best again. James.
Another deep clean restoration and magnificent finishes piece! Thank you!
Congrats on 200k subscribers. Locktite on the bleed nipple isnt needed, the nipple is the one part you want to move when bleeding the brakes. I've always found it easier to fit the piston before the dust cover, either way its still fiddly. Perhaps nickle plating the nipple would have added a bit of oooh, aaaarh and stopped future rust. Nice work as usual.
Looks great! I need to do that on my 67 Karmann Ghia!
My Dad has that same Car - first Car He drove (in High School) with a Manual Transmission...
While I am an E23/28 guy instead of E30, I still find your videos incredibly useful given the easy crossover of some of the parts, especially the differential. Keep up the good work!
Very satisfying to watch this transformation. Thanks for sharing your skills.
Why would you put loctite on the bleeder valve? That thing has to be loose to bleed the air out of the brake lines.
I wasn’t thinking straight there, haha.
The moment i saw this i was like: He have not actually do that 😂Well, this guy just fucket up pretty hard when he wants to bleed his brakes an just round the Valve 😂
It's the blue stuff, not that hard to break loose.
Also.. Skip silicon grease and use anti-seize instead.
(O[][]O) silicon grease is better for the rubber
another great video, always look forward to you putting out new content!
Thank you Simon. I’m always working as hard as I can to get new content out. Soon I hope to have one video per week :)
Nice! I used to struggle getting the dusk boot on but after many rebuilds I've discover that I can slip the boot on the bottom of the cylinder and then with it barely on work it into the caliper. Much easier that way.
Now that was pretty. I've rebuilt so many calipers. I didn't paint them but I wish I could have. In this boot design, I'd install the Piston by driving dry air through the bleeder orifice. Worked great
Super *THICC* Grease. (; Great job! I anticipate every restoration! Keep up the great work.
Great job as usual...like the comp air to blow the piston out lol....one day consider a ultrasonic bath when soaking the parts...nevertheless still a perfect effort 10 out of 10😅✌
Love the channel. If I see one of your videos, it doesn't matter what I am watching, I will click and go straight to watch your new video. Watching your restoration videos is one of the most satisfying things for me. Thank you.
Perfect. It so easy, I’ll try it at home. Thanks so much
Another cracking video. Nice to see a caliper being rebuilt and restored instead of being replaced. Nice colour too.
Bloody fantastic outstanding job mate each video just keeps getting better :D
Prefekt work🙏
Top Arbeit wie immer. Ich hab von Autos zwar null ah übt, aber deine Videos gucke ich immer wieder gerne, Restaurationsvideos in dieser Qualität sind einfach super, weiter so 👍
the satisfaction I got watching this is immense!!!
Great job probably better than the original BMW finish
Thanks, Richard.
will you restore the car part by part or there will be a longer video?
You make it look easy and doable. Great lesson.
Excellent, thank you for this creativity.
Hey when are we seeing the finished E30? can't wait to the finished product!
One day soon hopefully!
Perfection takes time!
You should try to film the blasting. It looks like it would be very satisfying
I'm trying my hardest to get a new cabinet for the channel sponsored so I can film with ease. My homemade one is very leaky. And my DSLR could die. Very soon!
Which DSLR camera do you use?
Couldn't you strap your camera to the cabinet in some way as to have it looking through the window?
Im always amazed by the reassembling part of your videos because im the type of person who can barely put a mechanical pencil back together let alone a part of a car
Man, it's just amazing what you do with anithyng.. I have a desire to restore some parts of my bike and I've been inspiring me in your videos to be able to do that.
I wonder how long it will take to restore the whole car Keep it up!
Sweepstake? I`m going for 28/04/2042.
Probably close to a year
10 minutes for a Brake Caliper... let's say 24 hours for the whole car restoration
Are you talking about my car?! lol
I can only restore the tabs of chrome after accidental shutdown of my pc..
A great restoration non the less.
Once I even failed to click restore and clicked close and bye 30+ pages
Elvin Novruzov That’s the worst. That empty feeling inside.
Ctrl+shift+t works even after shutdown.
@@elvinnovruzov5775 Check the settings, you can make Chrome keep all tabs if you exit accidentally or your PC crashes. "Settings > On startup > Continue where you left off"
Subscribed. I love these restoration videos. More please. I overhauled my car's brake calipers but not to this extent. Great video !
Awesome as usual, I’m really loving the car parts rebuild. Can’t wait for the next video. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
High temperature paint for those calipers? Also primer! lol
I love you restoration
This is great stuff. Makes me want to start sending E30 parts your way!
this man is master of adhesion, i like what you did there with that 800 grit
I hope you didn't sandblast inside the caliper, especially where the piston sits as its supposed to be incredibly smooth! i dread to think that theres bits of media floating around inside the caliper with the bleed nipple and hose being removed edit: that better not be locktite on that bleed nipple!
Its gonna be locktite
god help getting that loose without snapping it
Blue loctite. It's not hard to remove. I don't think it's a good idea, but it's not the end of the world. Blue comes loose easily.
I found it odd that he didn't get a cylinder hone to smooth down the inside of the cylinder. Even if he didn't blast it, it still should have been honed to refinish the surface.
but loctite on any bolt you want to easily remove is a bad idea. it's not like it will back out. debby downer alert sorry
Dude I'm actually restoring brake calipers for E30 and this video is very helpful for me. Today I was little bit nervous from that :) Thanks a lot.
Super cool. Happy it helped :)
That was done perfectly!! I would or could not have done it better myself I had the same spray gear and materials as you do. Just great work.
Wow, this was satisfying to watch. Thanks for the great video!
Protecting all bare skin... very good, and so was all the rest of it too... ☺
Better than new
my summer car
I do a lot of work similar to this. I bought a large heated ultrasonic tank to clean parts in. I use 50% Simple Green and water. Sometimes, I let the parts sit in it overnight. This has been a game-changer for me and I cannot say enough positive things about it.
Amazing without saying a word. Easy to follow along.
where is the orher one and the hole car?♥️
In the scrap yard??
Le me: I wonder when there will be more E30 restoration videos Literally 2 hours later....
You did it with your mind!
lol are you kidding me? i was literally going to rebuild my calipers this weekend and now a complete guide? amazing timing.
Its like you got a magic wand to transform old, rusty pieces to shinning glow even better than factory. Thumbs up!
Repeat, 3 more times.
Однозначно палец вверх!
Eu acho muito legal seu trabalho, admiro bastante pessoas que restauram coisas.
Perfect! I just watched EricTheCarGuy's brake caliper rebuild and thought to myself that something like that would be a great project for you.
с точки зрения обслуживания, это треш. Поршень должен легко входить когда все новое и смазанное. Штуцер конечно прокачной на фиксатор резьбы, это СИЛЬНО!
Может смазка от закисания
Поршень не входил походу потому что он отпескоструил цилиндр
"The paint is still wet, wait, don't touc.... Never mind."
You are definitely a professional! An amateur would paint the threads and the inside of the piston housing. Great job!
7:50 it’s all about having the right tools. Another good video. Keep it up.
Your car will eventually be better than a brand new BMW.
I hope so :)
Handcraft vs soulless industrial. You'll have YOUR ultimate BMW...
покрасил обычной эмалью и смазал силиконом? отличный экспонат для музея XD
Еще и лаком закрыл)))
I follow you from Spain. I love this channel. I'm always waiting for your next proyect. Sigue asi
Loving the car related restorations!!
После такой реконструкции тормозов, ими лучше не пользоваться.
отпескоструил по ходу цилиндр суппорта.
Did you fish that car out of a salt lake or why is it so rusty
Its a BMW thats why.
I presume you live somewhere warm and dry. If you lived in England or Germany you wouldn't be surprised.
M8 not even bad at German, try owning Japan rustbucket at scandinavia
Super excited to see more E30 content. Keep it up! ✌🏼
Nice to see people paint with proper paint with activator and everything and not cheaping out with spray can garbage.
что за термостойкий лак? что за термостойкий силикон? зачем штуцер на фиксатор посадил? ЧТО ЗА БРЕД???
он понятия не имеет что делает. его дело -- реклама всяких жижек
Пыльник и поршень вставлял неправильно. Поэтому и остановка съёмки. Была. На штуцере думаю была смазка для незакисания. И ещё . Что так 1 суппорт? А не два? И пескоструй и сначала потом поршень извлекаем. Думаю так. Согласны Русскоязычные?
да он вообще фигнёй занимается. просто баблишко рубт за рекламу всяких жижек... а дурачки (см восторженные комменты от англоязычных ниже) ведутся
Он запескоструил "зеркало" поршня ?!?!?
@@irbisirbisov4423 раковины внутри не особо критично... главное новый поршень
Нахера ты пескоструил цилиндр? его ненадо было трогать вообще... теперь суппорт можно в помойку выбросить, ибо не будет тормозить а сопливить конкретно тормозухой
Я вот тоже посмотрел, на это безобразие, заклинит нахер. А комменты почитать так нахваливают этого идиота все.
дауны безмозгие... они не понимают нихера
он ещё и прокачной штуцер посадил на фиксатор резьбы, идиот =)
он еще каловым(дай бог 100*С выдержит) силиконом направляющие помазал жирно...
зато Крым наш Платон наш дорогой бензин наш платные парковки наши кривые дороги наши замечательно живём!
I needed this video for my gti. Thanks
Love the way you’ve have put the video into chapters and well labelled 👍
You cant paint break calipers, dot fluid will eat that paint in no time
Turns out you can. Most people keep their brake fluid inside the system.
@@Mikey83943 lol
You can paint the calipers as long as the fluid stays _inside_ the system, which is _supposed to be_ closed to the outside world. It needs to be high temp paint, of course.
Dude just buy another caliper they $20 for a pair
If his hobby is restoring things, I don't think that he would want to buy new ones. Where I live, finding new calipers for $20 (especially colored ones) would be impossible unless I stole them.
I doubt new OEM calipers for a BMW would be that cheap.
Amazing if you can find them so cheap. Here in Norway, a single, used caliper in semi-ok condition is probably around $100, and then you'd have to restore that aswell. An aftermarked, not as good as OEM caliper is probably around $200+.
Also here where I live if you put used brake parts on a vehicle it would void the road worthiness certificate. Rebuilding a brake caliper however is fine providing it is done correctly. Only thing this chap missed is honing the cylinder before installing the new piston. I would think the rebuild kit is much cheaper then buying a whole new caliper.
@@forevercomputing The piston was replaced and it's my understanding you should hone the bore to allow the new piston to seat properly. There is some seriously tight specs with these as working pressure (and heat) can be very high. Braking on a steep hill for example. There is no margin for error as this is a critical part of the cars brakes and you need to be able to trust it.
When I have items like these with layers of scale i'll typically use the electro rust removal technique. Just did my rear calipers on my E36 and they came out looking brand new.
I hope we will get to see the E30 when it’s done, but until then let’s get some more parts resto. 😊 Great work man, awesome!
Отпескоструить зеркало цилиндра?... Посадить на фиксатор штуцер прокачки?...
а мог бы просто от восьмёрки поставить :))
Они бы ему по цене золота обошлись :)
да я шучу конечно. просто не знал что они настолько похожи
Тоже в недоумении как можно было рабочую поверхность отпескоструить, и при этом столько хвалебных отзывов.
Я думал мне показалось что он цилиндр отпескоструил. Да и поршень туда новый втыкать как-то не то. Его тогда притирать надо по идее.
Ну почему, блеать, на видосах все так просто!!
Да это пиздешь потому что. Там нет заклиненных поршней. Он свободно их вытащил.
Looks super....and loving the automotive restorations......
More E30 restoration videos! Very professional work!
собрал суппорт как рукожопый...смазки толком нет...поршень запихал в наглую...сразу видно к авторемонту не имеет ни какова отношения!
так он живёт тем, что рекламирует здесь всякие жижки...
Perfect and fantastic Job
Your techniques and results are getting better. Keep it up. You must have access to a BMW shop to get that cool insertion tool.
Nicely done looks great
Beautiful! Very satisfying to watch.
Great work! Looking forward to the rest of the car :D!
A superb restoration of a perfectly good and well made brake caliper that would have no doubt found its way to the scrap yard,it looks like it has just been unbox ed, well worth my 5 ☆ rating
Fantastic! I’m going to take mine now just because I see its not a waste of time! Looks better than new!
At last a new video! Awesome as always, thank you!
Great job nice finish well done
Nice project for sure. And I've done that same thing myself. But now I have a powder coating system and would use that to "paint" such parts knowing they will hold up to most anything and a lot longer. Thumbs Up!
this is a great work mate and good vedeo!! cheers from Norway