I'll try that, but to be honest its not a big chore to pop the brake stuff off. I have a set of brake tools that makes it somewhat easier. One thing I found was that there was a fair bit of dirt and some rust behind the bearing housing, in the trailing arm. I can imagine it being much worse in some parts of the world.
alistair
PS the syncro has a better way, a screw and P-clip, to hold the parking brake line to the trailing arm than my old '82 had. It had a plastic clip that was not secure.
On 15-Apr-11, at 8:51 PM, neil n wrote: > Hey Alistair. > > How ironic. ;) > > I've swapped wheel cylinders w/o taking brakes apart. (Syncro has same > rear brake setup?) > > Can't recall exactly how I did it. Just spread the shoes, (maybe held > them out of the way somehow?) and out it came. |
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