[s-cars] Rear caliper rebuild question

[Cody Forbes]

How ironic, I just did mine on Saturday. Unfortunately I can't comment on the spring situation as the 5000 calipers I was working with don't have said spring. Are you using the write up on Audiworld (or was it audizine)? It's fairly comprehensive. With plenty of pictures.

-Cody Forbes (mobile)

On Mar 10, 2013, at 8:43 PM, D Landaeta <dlandaeta at gmail.com> wrote:

> I decided to finally fix my sticking parking brake and properly rebuild the
> rear calipers. It may be just the beginning of a slippery slope as I see
> that most of the rubber bits under there are fairly shot. So subframe
> bushings and new control arms (if I can find non-chinese junk).. I
> digress... So I looked at the various great write-ups and have the caliper
> set up for getting the piston interior circlip out. My question is how much
> pressure does it take to push that spring down in order to somehow get a
> pair of circlip pliers or the like in there and remove the circlip? I used
> a metal bar with a bolt setup through it and an old socket. It seemed like
> a lot of pressure and I was getting no movement from the inner spring. At
> the risk of breaking something, I thought I'd ask y'all for some advice.
> 
> Doug enjoying UrS4 time in the 70+ degrees of partly sunshine this weekend
> in TN
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