Re: Help! Rear Disk Brake Calipers!

[Jim Jarrett <jarrett@rpa.net>]

At 10:06 AM -0500 7/4/99, J Buck wrote:
> I'm changing rear brake pads on my Passat wagon with Girling calipers.
>The pistons
> on both calipers will rotate out, but not back in...am I missing
>something here?
> They're not seized....I can get the pistons to move with brake pedal
>pressure, they
> just won't retract when I turn them.  I'm sure some of you guys have
>experienced
> this...please enlighten me.
>


You need a funky "tool" that will rotate it in.  Try jamming two nails in a
socket, with a smaller socket inside -- if you look at the piston, there
are two notches that will define how far apart you need the nails to be.

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