Brake seal failed

[deadmau5]

I was giving my brakes a service today as the rears have been a bit sticky and noisy recently. I did the fronts first, the pins came out pretty easily thankfully. I've put my new mrpink ones in now. When I got to the offside rear though I found this:





Will this caliper be fine with just a seal change?

 

[Chrisgti6]

Should be ok yeah, how worn were the pads? The piston seems a long way out!

 

[deadmau5]

I thought that as well. They still have a fair amount of life in them. I can't say the same for the disks though, they need replacing.

 

[Foxspeed]

as long as theres no corrosion/pitting on the piston where it goes past the fluid seal it should be ok

make sure you give the piston a good clean first as sometimes the chrome can become pitted and cause surface rust - this will just damage the fluid seal over time...

 

[deadmau5]

Cheers Simon . I'll buy a piston at the same time and send it back if it's not required.