Stuck rear caliper (16v disc brakes)

[roccit_53 at scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca (C Boyko)]

I lucked out on my one rear, it had a slot in it. But even the bug's rears
had to be screwed back in, so there's no escape with newer ones either.
Yeah, a PITA. But so are drums.

Cathy

On 7:15 pm 09/16/06 "Mike Smith" <smithma7@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah, C-Clamp was what was unsed to compress.  Couldn't get hex in
> hole as it was too gundged up. (on my car?!? wtf?!?)   So we used
> vise-grips, iirc, to turn it.  As I said, PITA.
>
> Don Walter wrote:
> >
> >  Big C-Clamp works great for compressing caliper pistons.
>
>
> John S. Lagnese wrote:
> >
> >  They screw in with a hex.
>
>
> --
> Mike
> '86 red 16v: Red 5 (aka der Jahrtausendfeierfalke)
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