Xantia Rear Caliper/Pads

[ecohouse1]

Just a word of thanks for the info on the forum that allowed me to tackle the rear calipers on my TD Xant estate.

The corrosion build up was twisting the caliper round enough to be touching the disc, plus the usual cheese shaped brake pads! As Citrojim recommended I used a breaker bar twisting gently to & fro to loosen the bolts, plus plenty of penetrating oil.

I had already tackled the seized pads a few months ago, which I lterally had to hammer out with chisels, then file away the corrosion on the caliper and pads.

Once I had the caliper off, there was a good 3-4 mm of white corrosion on the arm. I used my air chisel on it and it came off no problem. Coated the faces with grease and reassembled along with loads of grease on the bolt threads. Went to fit the pads I ordered from gsf and they were way too small!! I am thinking they must be for a GSA or Smaller BX as they were only 52 mm across rather than the 83 mm I need!!! SO had to reinsert the old pads.

Will pop the new pads in next weekend, but that should be a quick job as everything is now squared up greased and moving!

As advised I had bought the new caliper bolts in advance as "insurance" but didn't need them in the end. Would have been sods law that if I had not ordered them, then one would have sheared!!!

Thanks Again

Alan

[RichardW]

Estate rear pads are much larger than hatchback ones (which I suspect you have got). They also use larger bolts.

[Mandrake]

I hope you fitted the new calliper bolts though ? Whether or not the old bolts snapped on removal I would still fit the new ones as the old ones must be fatigued due to being stretched by the build up of rust...I know I will when I do that job on the V6

[CitroJim]

Great news Alan...

Yep, no new bolts and one would have gone for sure. Murphy lurks...

[ecohouse1]

Oops - I just refitted the old bolts - they looked fine apart from some alloy corrosion dust on the inner most threads. Wirebrushed and greased and back in they went.

When I put the new pads in - I will change the bolts one at a time then.

Cheers

Alan