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On 15 Dec 2002 at 18:58, phil cain wrote: > Use a grease gun to pump the calaper(piston) out, > holding the other one in with a "c" clamp,Pump it out, > clean it up and put it back in and remove the other > one, clean it up and put it back in place, then remove > them with air one at a time to clean the grease out. Phil Please don't pump your calipers full of grease. If you did this you would have to separate the caliper halves to try to clean out the small passages and the rubber seals between them. Any trace of petroleum products is really hard on the rubber parts in your calipers and is likely to come back to haunt you. Your brakes are too important to take this kind of chance with. It might be possible to use something other than grease in the grease gun, but I've already tried water in one and that failed. The grease gun leaks too much, and there isn't enough displacement in one stroke to do anything. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/