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Re: [T3] Stuck brake Pistons


On 16 Dec 2002 at 8:01, phil cain wrote:

> In using the grease gun to remove the pucks it will
> sometimes explode the calaper if it is too rusted,
> guess crisco would work but I've never had a problem
> after cleaning them, I always put new rubbers on them.
> The grease gun will develop over 5000 PSI, I put two
> or three shop towles over it when forcing the pucks
> out, have had metal chuncks in the overhead.

Don't you bleed them first? If so, I wouldn't expect them to explode at all.

Do you separate the caliper halves and replace the little square O-rings in 
there, too?

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Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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