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Repai of the brake system started (My original blog was written on 17th Dec. 2007)

I moved to the 2nd step to revive my “onboro ALFA”!


Today I jacked up my car to start the maintenance of the brakes and suspensions.

It took little time to raise the car to the height level of the jack stands because the lift up of my garage jack was not in good condition.  However, I could start the check.



At first I tried to remove the wheels, but as I expected the wheel nuts were sticking.
“10 years slept wheel nuts” were very tough enough.  But I managed to loosen them with the chemical “Rus-pene”.

I met with the brake calipers, brake master cylinder and clutch master cylinders after a long time.



The calipers were ATE, the brake master cylinder was BONARDI and the clutch master cylinder was BENDITALIA.
All of them were in a bad condition … I had to overhaul.

I would do my best to make them beautiful!
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