Brakes spongy after Girodisc caliper rebuild

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Apr 7, 2016, 07:41 AM

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Never mind, just realized the sti brembos don't have external crossover (the best disassembly tutorial around is using sti calipers)

Ah. I wonder if people read that, then assumed the same warnings were true for our brakes.

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Apr 7, 2016, 08:15 AM

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Even the rears though. It's just an oring. Go to a hydraulic shop and find a matching metric o-ring, probably just needs to be Viton and it'll work fine. The only issue I can see is if someone doesn't evenly tighten all the bolts and warps the housings. This is why torque wrenches are important...

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Apr 7, 2016, 01:35 PM

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I just tried to find the thread on here. Someone posted that it causes a problem with them sealing back together and warned against it. I'll keep looking and post when I find it. To be honest, it was about a year ago... and I can't remember details other than I kept mine together just in case. I'll keep searching.
If OP says he split his apart then it would make me thing "hmmm".

**edit: this is all i could find. just a lot of hearsay. It's pretty much what i read (i think). I have to imagine if we're half-way competent, splitting them shouldn't be a problem LOL. Unless I can find that other thread and it has different info.

https://www.evolutionm.net/forums/ev...bo-brakes.html

Didn't split the calipers. Only rebuilt the front calipers. I've heard if splitting the rears they may give issues since it's not like the front where there is a tube connection from one side to the other instead of an o-ring in the rear.