Cant retract rear caliper pistons on '95 A6
Kent McLean
kentmclean at comcast.net
Sun Jun 1 19:14:19 PDT 2008
Tyson Varosyan wrote:
> The rear is another story. We removed the old rotors and pads, but are
> unable to push in the caliper pistons. I can usually do it by hand, but here
> I went and got a special press tool for the job. I exerted at least 250 foot
> pounds of torque on a screw-type press unit (with a 2ft breaker bar). That
> piston just won't go in!
I'd open the bleed nipple so fluid pushed by the piston has someplace to go.
It should flow back into the master cylinder, but maybe there's blockage in
the line.
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Kent McLean
'99 A4 Avant, w/ quattro, V6, Tiptronic, :)
'91 200 TQA #1, backup car
gone but not forgotten:
'94 100 S Avant, "Moody", now with new owner
'91 200 TQA #2, up in smoke 2
'89 200 TQ, "Bad Puppy", up in smoke
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