V8 rear caliper rebuild help needed

[james accordino]

--- Kneale Brownson <knotnook at traverse.com> wrote:

> of formal nomenclature) call a peanut.  It's a piece
> of metal rod rounded 
> off at each end.  One end goes into a detent in the
> bottom of the rod, the 
> other into a concavity in the side of the parking
> brake arm that extends to 
> the outside for attaching the cable.  You have to
> extract the brake piston 
> rod in order to get the peanut out of the way so you
> can pull the parking 
> brake cable arm assembly out of the caliper.  I'd
> like to know what 
> lubricant is supposed to go into the peanut chamber.
>  
I believe it's "brake paste", a high temp. grease. 
That chamber is sealed off on both ends by o-rings or
grease seals.  I use Mobil 1 synth. grease when I do
them.

HTH
Jim Accordino