You Sir are a bloody Godsend!! I was rebuilding my caliper by use of the Flyin Miata tutorial and was wrestling with getting the piston seal to get seated in the groove. Trashed two seals, sworn like a trooper for over an hour.. and then I found this. "Don't do it any other way because it won't work", you said. Damn straight it won't. Watched your video and I had the piston seal on in TWO MINUTES!! I cannot thank you enough!!!
My MX-5 is going to a new home on Monday - I don't have the room to restore it myself. This video was very helpful, as I had to deal with a seized caliper. It was informative, and the format/camera angles helped a lot, along with the narration.
@tom Richardson I'm sorry to hear you are having to let go of your 5 the UK suffers from lack of car storage and that sucks I'm glad you liked the video and I could help you 👍 what car are you getting next ??
Thanks. Helped me a lot. The same calipers as Ford Laser (re-badged Mazda) in AU. I used a Febest kit. I found the kit's new piston dust boots pretty flimsy & ended up cleaning the original ones & using them. Viewers, make sure you clean the handbrake shaft well around the dust boot seal area to ensure a good seal. On mine I found that on one of the calipers water had got in & caused a bit of rust inside which then led to the O ring on the geared/threaded shaft wearing excessively & allowing fluid to leak from the piston side back past the O ring.
@robin Vincent I sure do I'm still driving it everyday all though the next video on it will have to be doing the front crankshaft seal as it's starting to leak bad now 😅
You Sir are a bloody Godsend!! I was rebuilding my caliper by use of the Flyin Miata tutorial and was wrestling with getting the piston seal to get seated in the groove. Trashed two seals, sworn like a trooper for over an hour.. and then I found this. "Don't do it any other way because it won't work", you said. Damn straight it won't. Watched your video and I had the piston seal on in TWO MINUTES!! I cannot thank you enough!!!
Thanks not had a nice comment in a while glad I could help you out 👍
My MX-5 is going to a new home on Monday - I don't have the room to restore it myself. This video was very helpful, as I had to deal with a seized caliper. It was informative, and the format/camera angles helped a lot, along with the narration.
@tom Richardson I'm sorry to hear you are having to let go of your 5 the UK suffers from lack of car storage and that sucks I'm glad you liked the video and I could help you 👍 what car are you getting next ??
Brilliant just what i was looking for
followed this today .. had a good idea about most of it but 1000% made it alot easier. legend thankyou mate. definitely do more !! top man
Thank you very much 😁
agreed. just what i need to know. understanding that little worm gear and how it all connects up. ps the voice over stuff is good.
@Swich69
Glad you found it helpful and yeah need to do more voice over stuff 👌👌
Nice video mate, really useful, bookmarked as I'm sure we're going to need to do it at some point!
Yeah it's not a bad job just super fiddly 🤣🤣
Thanks. Helped me a lot. The same calipers as Ford Laser (re-badged Mazda) in AU. I used a Febest kit. I found the kit's new piston dust boots pretty flimsy & ended up cleaning the original ones & using them. Viewers, make sure you clean the handbrake shaft well around the dust boot seal area to ensure a good seal. On mine I found that on one of the calipers water had got in & caused a bit of rust inside which then led to the O ring on the geared/threaded shaft wearing excessively & allowing fluid to leak from the piston side back past the O ring.
Glad I could help you out and yes that's some great advice add as well 👍
been a great help, thx so much!!
Glad this video is still helping people out 👍👍
friend tell me if that mazda caliper is the same as the volswagen mk1, mk2
the spare parts such as the rubber and piston kit are the same
Great video mate. You still got the MX5?
@robin Vincent I sure do I'm still driving it everyday all though the next video on it will have to be doing the front crankshaft seal as it's starting to leak bad now 😅