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Rear calipers

FWIW,

  It took a total of $125 to get my MK4 calipers on.  $75 for a pair of calipers delivered, and $45 or so to get the brake line adaptors delivered.  Easy install.  No problems. Way better than $130 per pair for remanned A1 calipers, I think.



Brian









 --- On Fri 05/19, Allyn < amalventano1@tds.net > wrote:

From: Allyn [mailto: amalventano1@tds.net]

To: jlagnese@massed.net, Scirocco-l@scirocco.org

Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 21:18:00 -0400

Subject: RE: Rear calipers



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