A6 Front Brake Guide pin question

[walian at att.net]

Kneale,

  I actually went to sears and purchased an 7mm 3/8 drive allen socket. I
worked fine. The 7mm allen is an odd size and all 4 of my sets at home went
from 6 to 8 without a 7mm wrench. After I purchased the 7mm socket the job was
easy. I used speedbleeder, which make the job really quick for bleeding the
system. Thanks to all that replied.


Frank
> At 03:34 PM 07/26/2003 +0000, walian at att.net wrote:
> >Hello all,
> >
> >   I am getting ready to put new front brakes on my 97A6Q and I was wondering
> >if anybody knows what the allen wrench size for the guide pins are on the
> >front caliper. I have tried 6mm which is to small and 8mm which is to big. Do
> >they make a 7mm allen wrench?
>
>
> I have a 7 mm socket-based allen.  Came in a set.  Are you sure the 8 is
> too large?  I just discovered that the bumper bolts on my 200q20v that I
> thought were T50 Torx because I couldn't get an 8 mm allen in there
> actually will accept an 8 if the corrosion is scraped out.  A PITA to try
> to scrape corrosion out of an allen head in that kind of setting, but you
> might want to check again after scraping with a dental pick or small flat
> screwdriver blade.
>
>