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I'm just putting my rear brakes back together as part of the rear suspension rebuild. Unfortunately I've just spotted that the rear LH caliper/carrier part number C22724 and pictured below has a crack in it. Don't know how I haven't noticed it till now as I have spent the last few weeks disassembling, cleaning, sandblasting, cleaning, painting etc etc the caliper and only noticed when I was putting in the new pistons...
Anyway, I need a replacement and wondered if anybody here could help. Ebay has a couple of possibilities, but one is complete junk and could be cracked as well & needs relining and the other is being sold as a fully refurbed pair. As I have already spent quite a bit of the green stuff on replacement pistons, seals etc for mine what I'm after is a crusty but not too far gone example that I can rejuvenate.
So chatting to my local Jag specialist and he suggested switching to xj6 rear calipers. An easy swap with a small bit of modification to the calipers to make them fit. You can get new xj6 calipers pretty cheaply, he said he had recently completed this swap for a customer with an S Type. As I have already spent on new pistons etc I said I would see if I could find a good used caliper. Then I thought.. what about the ones he had taken off his customers S Type when he fitted the xj6 calipers. Bingo I have my replacement rear LH caliper.