Do you paint the insides of your backing plates?

Or do you leave them bare metal?

Or possibly coat them with someting else- Boshield, Gibbs, etc?

Thanks,
Gary

 

Mine are powder coated.
So they do have a coat of "paint" on the inside...

 

Paint em......unless you like dealing with rust. use some good 2 pack, same as on the outside.

 

I did

 

Why wouldn't you paint them?

 

I just used Rustoleum red primmer. Then a very small dab of grease where the shoes hit on the little bump.

 

i always paint them. for everyday cars i bought a couple cases of rustoleum spray cans at a sale cheap of baby blue paint. it isn't good [god awful shade] for anything else, and has been my "signature" of a brake job.

 

I paint mine. It will make the next brake job a little cleaner.

 

I have always painted mine, never had any issues. Powder coat works better and cleans easier during service.

 

Same here.............. inside is left as R red primer.

 

Painted the new ones. The one ones rusted away and there wasn't much left

 

Powdercoat, unless they are chromed.

 

never done it just during a brake job on a "regular" old car, but on my all apart for 10 years 49 Chevy I painted them.

 

I used cold galvanized spray paint I picked up at a local auto paint dealer.

 

Paint them & then use lubraplate or equivalent where the shoes touch the backing plate.

 

I used por on my backing plates.

 

Yes

 

Thanks, everyone.

 

I use black high temp paint. Works for me.

Elwood

 

Interesting..I don't think I ever have, but I've never seen bare metal ones either. Good idea. I thin I'd use the brightest most obnoxious colour I couls.

I always lube the contact points though, Nev-r-sieze or Raybestos brake lube. Mopar makes an AWSOME lube, but I think you can only get it at dealerships (borrowed some when I worked there)

 

Here's mine.... I like pwdr coat. Everything is nice, neat, clean, looks good, etc. And when you want to clean it up & install new shoes it cleans much easier.

 

Powder coat for me.

 

Imron on mine, and the rest of the frame.

 

One of the things that attracted me to Volvo was they painted and protected their under-car stuff like they really meant it to last. Driveshafts, control arms, etc. Fully sealed e-brake cables.

Even with that level of care, In Eastern Mass all my Volvo brake shields look like this.
http://vimeo.com/4853780.

More and more I've been cleaning and painting everything I work on.

 

Powdercoated mine

 

Painted black with a rattle can...Krylon. Semi gloss

 

There is no reason not to paint or powdercoat the inside just like the outside. It will function just the same and it won't rust.

Don

 

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This may rank as a "Dumb Question", but you asked so the answer is Paint Them. Bob

 

Cause I had mine CHROME PLATED