Painted the grill a satin black

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Tons of chips

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Cleaned up and drying in the sun

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After one light coat

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After 3 coats

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Finally got around to painting the nasty old calipers!

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Wheels off

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Before

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Took off all of the retainers, pads, guide pins, etc

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Didn't want to remove the brake line so I held up the caliper by a bucket and used it as a working bench

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After 2 coats of color I applied the sticker and then threw on 2 coats of clear

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All mounted. I know the decal is slightly crooked :facepalm:

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All done!

Now to tackle the rear calipers when the weather gets better!

 

Put in some Daizen polyurethane steering rack bushings


Out with the old stuff



New bushings are in


Impressions:

Much of the dead zone between 11 and 1 o'clock on the steering wheel is gone and the communication between the tires and the steering wheel is much more pronounced. I can feel the small imperfections on the road at my hands now. Very impressed and it was totally worth the money.

 

What better to compliment the new steering rack bushings than a nice power steering fluid flush? =)



I also put some Seafoam Trans Tune into the system to flush out any varnish and impurities. All you need to do is remove whatever fluid you can from the reservoir, and fill the reservoir up the the max line with the Seafoam. Turn your car on and let it run for 15 minutes, turning the wheel lock to lock 10-15 times every few minutes to ensure the cleaner cycles through the system adequately.


What I extracted from the reservoir

The opening in the reservoir was too small for me to extract everything out with a baster, so...


Gravity hand pump time


Pulled the return line and kept adding new fluid until she was bleeding bright red


The old stuff to be recycled =)

 

So one of the calipers in my front calipers started to seize so I decided why not get some rebuilt ones and paint them?


Prepped for paint baby


First coat of color on



Put some stickers on after the paint completely dried
Stickers from http://www.motogfx.com/lexus/

 

Nice upgrades. Those calipers look nice. Mine are atrocious. I've never seen stickers for calipers. How do they stand up to the abuse and heat?