Rear caliper question - Need quick answer!

[Greville H. Bowles]

That requires a twisting or turning motion (clockwise, I believe) while
applying pressure to the piston. Once you do that it goes in quite smoothly,
if everything is clean.

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Mr. Greville H. Bowles
RR 5, Rockwood, Ontario CANADA
Phone: (519) 856-0213
E-mail: zaphod at cansafe.com
'95 90Q
'85 245 DL
'83 GS650GL
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-----Original Message-----
From: quattro-admin at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-admin at audifans.com]On
Behalf Of Per Lindgren
Sent: November 18, 2002 3:25 PM
To: quattro
Subject: Rear caliper question - Need quick answer!


Quattrophiles,

A few days ago, somebody posted the procedure on how to disassemble the
rear caliper to free up the handbrake actuator. I did that today, and
cleaned up a lot of rust and old goo. Now comes the big question.

How the hell do I compress the spring inside the caliper to get the
circlip back on? The spring is almost as hard as a valve spring, and
there's no way I can compress it with the circlip pliers. This wasnt
mentioned in the short writeup either...

I could use the answer pretty quickly as I'd like to try to get at least
one caliper finished tonight (it's 9:30 pm right now)

PerL