As mentioned previously, I was off a few days and spent 1 day to work on the Kappa SW.
Now the stabilization bars were done I could look into the brakes. All brakes had to be freed up.
I started at the backside but effectively these were spinning freely. Which is not a surprised as these were renewed when it bought the car 5 years ago:
https://erwinkappa.blogspot.com/2020/10/mot-maintenance-bill.html
Still I took it off and cleaned the whole lot with a steel brush on the drill machine and lubricated the slider bars of the calipers
So the backside was pretty easy. The front however was indeed more problematic. The brake cylinder was slightly corroded and dirty thus playing up a little.So this got cleaned up and lubricated.
Luckily I had once bought this brake kit, so I easily could push them back. And repeated this a few times. Also the front brakes got cleaned up with a steel brush and lubricated the caliper pins.
The car had on all wheels new brake pads. So now the car brakes are working properly again.
Afterwards I have been driving up and down the street and tested the brakes to ensure there were no surprises.
Another reported issue was potential rust / bubbles on one of the braking pipes (rear left). I could not easily spot this though, but could see one pipe having a little bubble on the coating
So with sandpaper I removed the coating till it was blank. The bubble was definately not a result of rust, so all was good though. I sprayed the whole lot with rust protection primer:
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