[ProwlerGT]

I think anyone who gets the idea in their head to rebuild the calipers (all the way around mind you) shouldn't do it..... that is of course unless you do ZERO cleaning and just put everything back together which I just can't allow myself to do. I have decided I want to paint my calipers and this means several hours of very intense cleaning. So far my best bet has been to use the circular wire brush on a high rpm drill. I've been working since 4 am this morning and its almost 1pm now and I've only got the parts for the front two rotors done which is the hardest part of course cause the rears are smaller. I sure hope this crap works. I'm going to follow the instructions for the spraying:

Adhesion coat > Primer coat > High Temp Anodized Blue coat

If it comes off I am going to be one pissed mofo. I'm also getting some extreme funk off of the pistons and cylinder edges where the gaskets and clip go. Unless I'm mistaken about using silicone in the calipers I plan to seal the piston gaskets with blue high temp rtv as well as the rubber sleeves for the slide bolts.

I swear ya'll. It looked like I always went mudding with my car. There is so much gunk built up inside the calipers it is pathetic and whats the worst is that its layers upon layers of hardened solid gunk that won't come off easily.

I'm wire brushing everything; even the bolt threads and I've devised a method to clean out the bolt holes of the hardened grease. Its pretty cool actually. You get one of those rough Scotch brand green dish scrubbing pads, cut about a 1 inch strip of it off, twist it a bit, then work it down the hole with a standard sized flat head screwdriver while pushing the screwdriver in the center of the scrub pad in the hole turning clockwise till bottom. The length of the pad is long enough to pull it out afterwards; just have to be careful you don't lose the pad in hole if the pad gets severed by the screwdriver. Afterwards I did the same thing with a blue shop towel, another squirt of brake parts cleaner, and way-la. Very time consuming, but it works well. I would not stand to leave any of the old build-up inside.