Akebono brakes cannot be rebuilt?

Rusty

I wouldn't take the calipers apart unless you see some leaking, or want to change the o-rings between the 2 halves. To freshen them up. Just replace the pistons, seals and duct covers.

BUT if you want to get adventurous.

This is what I do with putting the halves back together. I use HI-Spot bluing compound. This stuff shows the high spots between the 2 halve. Put a small amount on a piece of paper towel. Wipe it across one half. Putting a VERY thin coat down. Bolt the halves together. Torque to spec. Then unbolt it. Look at the half that didn't have the bluing compound on it. It should have the bluing on it. Good mating should show about 95% to 100% contact transfer of the bluing compound. Where there is no bluing, is a low spot. To fix that. Use a honing stone and lots of WD40 to stone the halves. You will have to repeat the process several times to get it right. The last couple of calipers I did. After checking the contact one time. Everything was good.

Try not to get the bluing compound on your skin. It's like walnut stain. It ain't coming off for awhile.

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madwi

In the machine shop we used Dykem for practical jokes more than anything. perfect when someone lays their safety glasses down, add it to the nose bridge and temples. Also works great on handles of all kinds, coffee cups, especially if they are blue or black colored to begin with, backside of tools, ect.

Rusty

I could tell you all kinds of stories!
Inside of work glove finger tips.
The underside of tools laying on a bench.
The backside of a broom standing in a corner.
The backside of a flashlight sitting on a urinal. My favorite. This was classic when it happened. It happened to a foreman to boot!
The flush handle of a toilet.
The backside of the microwave handle.
The ear piece on the phone on the foreman's platform.
The controls on a forklift, overhead crane.
Disconnect a air nozzle from an air line. Squeeze some inside of it. Reconnect the air line. Blow off your work piece. EVERYTHING is now blue.
Also putting mustard and ketchup packets under the toilet seat.
Rubbing limburger cheese on the sweatband on a welding helmet.

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madwi

The best one that I do not recommend is the score a 20 oz plastic soda bottle with a razor blade. put lots of Dykem inside. Remove airhose from the wall.
Drill a hole that tightly! fits the long nozzle of the air gun and tape the handle down and seal it up around the nozzle. silently manuever the bottle near the person you hate and reconnect the airline. Not only is it extremely loud but bluing goes everywhere! Witnessed a firing over that prank.

Rusty

Weld threaded pipe fitting to a vert steel beam in the shop. Screw a ball valve into the end of welded fitting. Screw pipe nipple and 90deg elbow into ball valve. Turn the elbow so that it's pointing up. Open ball valve and fill with water. Turn the elbow down. Do this to a couple of beams. Go tell the new guy that he has to go around a check the beams for moisture content. And he has to measure how much is in each beam. Then give the report to the general foreman, who is on the joke.

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madwi

Some days I sure miss working in the shop jokes for days.
Newbie, go to the basement and get some more carbide inserts from storage. Stairs is in the president's office, in his closet is a trap door to the basement. He likes to control the inventory but dont worry anyone can just go in there.

Rusty

One foreman had a bicycle air pump painted bright yellow, with the words "SUNSHINE PUMP" on it. Sitting on a shelf in his office. Said it was for us asssholes who tried to blow sunshine up his asss when trying to explain our way out of trouble.

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Jayhovah

My first job out of college was working on Robbins Air Force Base. One day one of the Air Force One's was parked out in the field. I got all excited about it and my coworkers were encouraging me to go check it out, said they do it all the time when it is there. I started to walk out there and they stopped me.. Told me they used to tell newbies to do that and watch secret service plant them into the concrete as they got close. But eventually they got in trouble so now they just set us up and stop us before we actually go.

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