Akebono brakes cannot be rebuilt?

ZeroZeta

I am working on rebuilding a pair of front Akebono's now. No issues just make sure not to cut corners and follow fsm tq specs.

honestly, I can't remember of ever hearing of any car not having re-buildable calipers. Maybe some exotics?

MaysEffect

This caliper is unusual in the sense it is a 2-piece design with a internal crossover tube. Most 2-piece calipers have external lines. This is the problem with incorrectly disassembling and reassembling them.

Jhill

This is only an issue as you said if assembled incorrectly. Every single multi piston motorcycle or bike caliper I can think of uses and internal crossover tube. The only reason cars use an external one is bacuse the left and right caliper are the same and the crossover tube takes the place of bleeder screws so they can save on manufacturing costs.

MaysEffect

Most motorcycle calipers are monoblocks nowadays too, so they are not rebuild-able by design. Using external crossover tubes doesn't make the manufacturing cost any cheaper. If anything it's more because its 3 additional parts per caliper assembly.

Brembo and Stoptech crossover tubes range from 15-25 dollars each. An internal design is built into the caliper and has no additional cost, other than additional machining time. But these are cast calipers so the machining time is already reduced.

ZeroZeta

Thanks for the info MaysEffect. Makes total sense.

Also here is a pic of the inside of the right caliper and the rebuild kit I am using.

The crossover MaysEffect mentioned is the center hole on the top left.