JoeyM

something about no dust seal, checking the pistons, flushing the fluid often....

anyone know how to take them apart? is it just like normal calipers?

dingster

Yeah, rebuild them every 2 years =)

John/TSR

No real maintenance issues. No dust seal = no melted dust seal after track use. A caliper is a caliper. Popping the pistons out is easy with compressed air, just pull the cross-over tube for each side. Fluid change is no different than any other caliper. Just call Wilwood - their technical support people are great. I've also had great experiences with their in-house repair people.

It depends on the caliper you're looking at, but pads for Wilwood calipers (and those using identical mounts and pads like Outlaw) are cheeeeeeep. The roundy-round racers (whether dirt or ash-fault) are frugal, and pads are available in many compounds and they're all cheeeeep. My calipers use the Jai-Gundus Grand National pad (GN) and everybody (Performance Friction, Hawk, Carbotech Larry, etc) makes pads for them. The most expensive ones I've ever seen are about $150....and they're HUGE !!!

JoeyM

thanks for the info!