disassembling type-44 rear calipers

Geraint Lloyd geraintlloyd_qc at yahoo.ca
Mon Apr 23 12:25:27 EDT 2007


Joe Lucas strikes again

Kneale Brownson wrote:
> http://20v.org/brakere.htm    Covers it.
>
> Ameer Antar <antar at comcast.net> wrote:  Does anyone know how to take apart
the rear brake calipers for a 5000? I need
> to take out the rubber seals before getting them coated, but the parking
brake
> mechanism doesn't seem to want to come out after taking the spring out.
There's
> a large snap-ring deep inside the piston bore; is this necessary to remove
the
> parking brake mechanism? Also what kind of tool could I use on that? The
> snap-ring pliers I have are to wide and short to reach all the way into the
> bore. I haven't been able to find a set of long nose snap-ring pliers. Any
> advice is much appreciated.
>
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