[s-cars] Rear Brakes

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I've never been to Rome, but wtf..
I did my rear brakes just yesterday, after r'n'r'ing the front UFOs saturday.
I've purcased a little tool from my 'local' Biltema (Swedish 'Pep-boys'..)
http://www.biltema.no/products/product.asp?iSecId=506&iItemId=21610 and it
cost 109 NoK, which is about $13. (Probably would be about a tenner in the
states..) For the extra bucks you get a tool that is very easy to use, and
even if I would've used it only once, I'd get away from the job with my
knuckles and gaskets intact.

Here's a great rear brake write-up btw.: http://www.20v.org/brakmain.htm

Bjorn  :o)
'92 S4 Now braking w/o noise!

>===== Original Message From "Keith Maddock" <Keith.Maddock at trw.com> =====
>OK, "When in Rome...".  When I had to do rear calipers on a Passat that a
mechanically-challenged friend owned ("My brakes make this really loud noise
when I stop, is that bad?) in Detroit (not Detroit metro area, but **IN**
Detroit), we went down to the local AutoZone (complete with iron bars over the
window!) and got a $9.99 "Universal Rear Brake Tool".
>
>Looks like a little Borg cube.  Each of the 6 faces has a different set of
"nubs" on it to fit a different kind of rear caliper, and then each face also
has a 3/8" hole so you can put this on your socket wrench (extension).
>
>For using this "Universal" tool on the V-Dub (very similar Lucas/Girling/TRW
calipers as the ones on our cars), we had to take one face that had 4 nubs of
the right size/shape/spacing, and quickly hack-saw two of them off, and now
its a perfect fit.  (Universal in Detroit usually means that it works on any
American car, not necessarily one of them Furrin cars...)
>
>Sometimes just putting it on the socket and pushing while turning doesnt cut
the trick and you can get out the trusty C-Clamp and clamp the tool between
the round-clamp-end and the caliper. Then you tighten it up and then get a
screwdriver and put it in the 3/8" socket holes and twist.  Requires a little
bit of acrobatics to keep the c-clamp tight as you are twisting, but this
works like a charm every time for me....
>
>As a bonus, the same tool then worked for my S2000, a Ford Mustang, and a
Honda Prelude (I need to find friends who can turn their own wrenches.. LOL)
$9.99 well spent, IMHO!
>
>Keith  Maddock
>
>
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>Keith Maddock, TRW Automotive,  Koblenz, Germany
>Slip Control Systems, Systems Design, Traction Control
>+49 (0)261/ 895 2474     -    -    keith.maddock at trw.com
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