[200q20v] sticking caliper

[Eyvind Spangen]

On Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:48:52 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:

>I ended up getting one from the junkyard that had
>spent years? lying buried in the mud after someone
>removed the wheel.  It was so rusty he gave it to me. 
>I cut it in half with a high speed cut-off wheel and
>quickly figured out how it was assembled.  Interesting
>piece of hardware; to me anyhow.  After you get the
>snap ring out from above the base of the piston stud,
>screw the piston back on and use it to pull the stud
>out.  Taking the boot and piston o-ring out makes it
>easy to screw the piston on.  If you can't pull it out
>you might lever under the piston with a screwdriver. 
>This should easily remove it.  The o-ring is probably
>stiff and swollen, and rust or what used to be brake
>fluid are probably also making things difficult.  This
>is usually the problem.  Less likely is that the brake
>lever shaft has rust/goop and won't rotate freely.  It
>rides in a bush pressed in the caliper.

I disassembled a 5k rear caliper once, and found it next to impossible
to get the C-shaped ring that keeps the spring inside the "cylinder"
on again after disassembling.. 

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ES