Stuck rear caliper (16v disc brakes)

[jlagnese at massed.net (John Lagnese)]

It should be in the center of the piston. If not, visegrips should get
it in.

-----Original Message-----
From: Nate Lowe [mailto:nlowe79@gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 8:07 PM
To: Mike Smith
Cc: Scirocco List
Subject: Re: Stuck rear caliper (16v disc brakes)

I'm confused as to where I'm supposed to screw it in. The caliper piston
itself was round and concave, nowhere really for a hex bit (or any other
bit) to screw it in. As for the big C-Clamp, that's what I tried and it
didn't work. Maybe I don't have 16v rear discs? If I don't, I have
something
that takes the exact same pads as they matched the ones on the car
perfectly.

On 9/16/06, 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)
> "The world is my oyster soup kitchen floor wax museum." - King Crimson
>
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