Rear calipers

[jlagnese at massed.net (John Lagnese)]

I am going to try some PB on Sunday when I get home. I spend weekends in
North Conway, NH. The driver's side freed up quickly. I may be interested in
the right side. I'll let you know on Monday.
John
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Allyn" <amalventano1@tds.net>
To: "'John S. Lagnese'" <jlagnese@massed.net>; <Scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 9:18 PM
Subject: RE: Rear calipers


> I've freed them up on a B3 passat with some liberal use of PB blaster and
a
> few minutes of working the arms with a pair of vice grips on them.  It
helps
> to remove the pads so you can get full motion on the arm.
> Al
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John S. Lagnese [mailto:jlagnese@massed.net]
> > Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 1:57 PM
> > To: Scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> > Subject: Rear calipers
> >
> > Hi,
> > Has anyone been successfull in freeing up the e-brake actuators on the
> > rear
> > calipers? Mine were so frozen that it took a hammer to get it moving.
> > After
> > several hours it is till just moving with visegrips. The return spring
> > still
> > cannot moe it back.
> > What, if anything, has worked?
> > BTW Autozone has the calipers for $65 plus core.
> > John
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Scirocco-l mailing list
> > Scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> > http://neubayern.net/mailman/listinfo/scirocco-l
>
>