Subject: Re: aaarggh, help please, typ 89q rear calipers
Kneale Brownson
knotnook at traverse.com
Thu Aug 14 15:02:43 EDT 2003
At 01:34 PM 08/14/2003 -0400, JagerBond at aol.com wrote:
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>FWIW - on my 83UrQ the inside of the caliper piston had a large hex - so
>large I couldn't find a hex to fit it at my local resources. I ended up
>finding
>that my torx 50 (really big) worked with socket wrench twisting and pressure.
That Allen is a 12 mm on our 4 and 5kq's. I'm surprised a Torx 50 would
bite on anything in that piston cavity. A 50 Torx's stars come close to
matching the points on an 8 mm Allen.
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