--RGOLEN@umassd.edu said:-- > Quick suggestion for pushing the pistons back in the callipers. I > found a 6" "C" clamp at a yard sale once. Whenever I need to push > the pistons back into the calliper, I put the stationary end of the > clamp on the calliper opposite the piston and the screw part of > the clamp onto or into the piston and then crank away! It pushes > in even the most stubborn piston...and does not chew up the > surface of the piston like a pair of pliers or grips might. This is what I've always done, and I has never let me down, except for the time I worked on a friend's Subaru, which we found later wants the pistons screwed back in instead of pushed........ -- Todd R. Schroeder |This is not the luggage ticket (baggage todds@sunnet.chotel.com |check) described in Article 4 of the Warsaw |Convention as amended by the Hague Protocol '71 Campmobile |of 1955.
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