Replacing Calipers. As a pair or singular?

[1fast6]

I need to replace one of my valver calipers as the bleed nipple is stuffed but at £35 +vat exchange their not cheap.

The other one is fine so can i get away with just replacing the one caliper or will braking performance be offset with two different age calipers?

Thanks

[VIPERONE]

i'd change the pair... one may perform better than the other

[Daz]

/me agree, also.

[matty]

Ditto. You change pads and disks in pairs so cannot see why calipers would be different.

[BigBoreBri]

Always a pair mate, and at £35-40 for a full caliper i wouldn't complain... A seal kit from reno, would cost that! :lol:

[northy]

change both.... :D just to be differant :wink:

[Chris H]

get the nipple removed then and fit a new one.

[Lunner]

get the nipple removed then and fit a new one.

Was gonna say about that lol, a bleed nipple will be pence compared to a caliper, infact i'm pretty sure i ahve one somewhere on a ****ed caliper

[Chris H]

hard bit is and this is an assumption that the nipple has broken off flush with the caliper, to get it out you need to weld a nut on to it.

new nipple is pence from a factors.

[Lunner]

Wasn't sure if it had broken off, or just blocked up or something etc, just says its stuffed.

My idea woudl be to get a revers thread screw and screw it into it, pulling out out

[Chris H]

I have yet to see a reverse thread actually work. If it works then it could have came undone with your fingers, stuck things it makes more stuck by expanding them.

[Lunner]

Ok, fair enough, never actually used one you see

[Chris H]

their best trick is snapping in the drilled hole

[Lunner]

their best trick is snapping in the drilled hole

Would drilling it out and tapping the thread work, or failing that helicoiling it?

Or won't that work cus if the fact that they are hollow?

[Chris H]

both would work but tbh if you drill down it and get rid of the conical bit then the pressure on the threads goes and they tend to unscrew.