[s-cars] Rear brake saga - will the questions *never* end?

Eric Phillips gcmschemist at gmail.com
Mon Feb 13 02:00:14 EST 2006


Wow.  The passenger side caliper was way blowed up.  And damn, were
those allen bolts seized in there!

I actually had to break the friction material out of the outboard pad
to get the caliper away from the disk.  And sacrifice a little blood
to the Audi gods as well.  :)

OK, so, in addition to my flex line to hard line question, here's
another - when I reassemble everything, I'd like to prevent the use of
a breaker bar in tight quarters the *next time* I take this stuff
apart (pad change, rotor resurface, etc.)  Should I use some
copper-based anti-seize on the end of the threads?  How about regular
old high temp caliper grease?  The portion of the bolts that were
screwed into the carrier were a bit corroded.  I'm gonna clean those
up with a wire wheel before I put it back together, but I would like
to use something to prevent corrosion and aid my dissassembly next
time.

Ideas?  Warnings?  Jeers?

Eric


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