Seized handbrake lever on rear caliper...

[Kneale Brownson]

I didn't rebuild, so I'm uncertain about the grease, but high-temperature 
brake paste or whatever it's called sounds like a potential 
application.  The intact stuff that was in the better of the two calipers I 
took apart looked like a real heavy vaseline.  I stripped calipers off a 
parts car just to see what they were like and off my 200q20v after I had 
replaced the calipers with new ones.  I wasn't going to make any use of the 
ones off the old parts car and I wouldn't reuse the ones off the 200 unless 
I found a way to clean up the corrosion spots on the piston and caliper 
without altering the bore or piston surface.


At 09:09 AM 12/06/2000 +0200, Gerard wrote:

>No, the piston does not move when I hammer the lever. Come to think of
>it, this does not happen on the other rear caliper, either. I think my
>best bet, given that I am running out of time, is to source equivalent
>units from a later Audi 100/A6 and rebuild those with the rebuild kits I
>have. What grease did you use?
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>G.
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