Back to work on the 959 tonight...

[Wayne 962]

Had a rough day, so I decided to retreat to the garage to work on the 959. I'm replacing the discs, and the shocks, and still working on the hydraulic accumulators. I don't have much time to caption, but I can post a few pics...

-Wayne

[village idiot]

Wayne, I love the fact that the car is not spotlessly clean.

[bkreigsr]

what's up in #1? did you have to grind off a frozen bolt head to separate the caliper halves? Do you have to break open the calipers every time you replace the pads? (doubtful for a car built for endurance racing?)
consider yourself lucky that your garage was warm enough to work in without gor-tex mittens and three layers of windbreakers (NJ=6 deg) Bill K

[totle]

Nice :-) first time I have seen pictures from under a 959.
Nice to see the suspension set-up etc.

Please post more pictures

[Bill Verburg]

Did the 959 use 903 size rotors? 304x232 and 309x28 or something bigger? 23.8mm m/c?

[Bill Verburg]

Is that the handbrake caliper w/ the broken bolt?

[bkreigsr]

Originally Posted by Bill Verburg

Is that the handbrake caliper w/ the broken bolt?

now I see it, said the blind man!! thanks Bill

[jetstar911]

I love the "real world" pics! Not an everyday sight. Thanks for the pics. Would love to see more!

[KTL]

Looks like a broken guide pin/bolt on the handbrake caliper. Do you even need to remove those pins? It's a single piston sliding caliper that could come off with the ear mounts vs. "splitting" the caliper.

[James Brown]

Looks like the wheel well of a 737! Thats a lot of stuff in there. I would hate to run over a cat at high speed, might make a mess.

[wayner]

Originally Posted by Wayne at Pelican Parts

Had a rough day, so I decided to retreat to the garage to work on the 959. ...

Is that the laboratory of some mad scientist?

[304065]

Originally Posted by wayner

Is that the laboratory of some mad scientist?

It's the backdrop for Wayne's new book 11 Projects for your 959

[sailchef]

Originally Posted by wayner

Is that the laboratory of some mad scientist?

Can't be factory. It's to easily accessible.

[rusnak]

Every rough day is made better by retreating to the garage to work on the ol' 959-er. I guess.

[88911coupe]

Are those accumulators similar to the ones on my '88 BMW 535i used for brake boost, IIRC?

[CraigT]

wayne,
do you have more postings for the 959, i would really like to see more.

[Wayne 962]

Originally Posted by bkreigsr

what's up in #1? did you have to grind off a frozen bolt head to separate the caliper halves? Do you have to break open the calipers every time you replace the pads? (doubtful for a car built for endurance racing?)
consider yourself lucky that your garage was warm enough to work in without gor-tex mittens and three layers of windbreakers (NJ=6 deg) Bill K

That's the handbrake caliper, and yes, you need to split it in order to get the rotor off. Normally, a pretty straightforward job, except for when the cap screw rounds off. I found that these bolts seemed unusually soft - this one was very easy to cut through.

-Wayne

[Wayne 962]

Originally Posted by jetstar911

I love the "real world" pics! Not an everyday sight. Thanks for the pics. Would love to see more!

Coming soon. Some more coffee, and then the install of the new rotors.

-Wayne

[Wayne 962]

Originally Posted by KTL

Looks like a broken guide pin/bolt on the handbrake caliper. Do you even need to remove those pins? It's a single piston sliding caliper that could come off with the ear mounts vs. "splitting" the caliper.

I could get the pads out, but I just didn't have enough room to get the disc off. The other side came off in less time than it took me to write this sentence!

-Wayne

[Wayne 962]

Originally Posted by James Brown

Looks like the wheel well of a 737! Thats a lot of stuff in there. I would hate to run over a cat at high speed, might make a mess.

It's mostly covered up in there - I have the covers off to work on it...

-Wayne