Rear Caliper piston rust

[Kneale Brownson]

At 01:03 PM 07/04/2003 -0400, denis wrote:
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>I have send my rear galipper to a shop.
>All they did is to put a new piston, wash the galipper and change the two
>big seals.
>BUT didnt do anything about the area of the manaul brake. It seems that
>they could not remove the clips inside and change the little seal.
>!!!!!!   what a shop man...
>
>I think i ll do myself... not spend 150$ can for that job _)(*&?%$#        :-O
>
>Ðenis


There's a circlip at the bottom of the cylinder than I've extracted with
longish needle-nose pliers that have the tips ground small enough to fit
into the holes in the circlip.  That releases a rather healthy spring under
a flat washer, so you need to be careful.  The remaining threaded post
comes out with some vigorous prying with a pair of screwdrivers.  That gets
you to the chamber with the parking brake actuator that has to be removed
to allow extraction of the arm that the parking brake cable attaches
to.  Nobody has reported a source for the seal that goes in the hole the
cable arm assembly sits in, but, reportedly, a replacement seal wouldn't
keep the system from corroding in the future anyway.