Rear calipers

[amalventano1 at tds.net (Allyn)]

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
> 
> 
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