V8 rear caliper rebuild help needed

[Kneale Brownson]

Thanks, Jim.  The stuff in the "good" caliper I took apart looked like a 
really heavy version of vaseline.   Do you suppose that's the B000100 brake 
cylinder paste or the G000650 lubricating paste as depicted in the Family 
Album?



At 07:41 AM 06/25/2001 -0700, james accordino wrote:


>--- 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