My Baer brakes arrived this week, along with a load of other bits and bobs for both cars. It had been raining overnight, so wasn’t looking good to work on the car on Saturday. It was still wet, but I decided to get on with it anyway. I pulled the old disc and hub on the driver’s side, then pulled the top and bottom ball joints which were both knackered. With the new ones back in, and the new hubs and discs on it started to rain again. After waiting for ten minutes, it didn’t look any better, so I decided to get on with it anyway. There was a new master cylinder to fit, and new lines to be made so I did that. I came in to look after Tommy for ten minutes or so while Lisa went out, and the weather cleared up a bit. I decided to get the other disc on, which went easily, then re-did the ends of the pipe for the new fitting (the old ones were rusted solid).

The pipe had gone really brittle, and split when I made the flare. I cut it back a bit more and tried again, which seemed OK. While the wheels were off, I put the new Hotchkis anti roll bar in as well, which apart from being a pain in the arse to get past the new brakes was easy. I called it quits at 10pm which made me popular. Sunday morning I bled the brakes, and the fronts were weeping on the joint of the old pipe. Rather than risk it, I replaced the old pipe with a new one and bled it again. I then did the rears, which had an unbelievable amount of air in. When it was all done, I gently tested it on the drive and it all seemed good. Took it round the block and gave it some stick and changed ends when the rears locked up. I ended up with the rear brakes on minimum and they still lock up first, but the car stops amazingly. The rears are actually doing something now as well. When I tested them before, the fronts had turned blue from heat, and the rears were lukewarm at best. Now they are way too hot to touch, and the fronts are cooler, but still way too hot to touch. Looking forward to driving it to work tomorrow.