Rear Girling Caliper Troubles

[Steinbru@VNET.IBM.COM]

Kurt, you're about right, rotor and pads are about an hour (each, f/r).
You need a 12mm hex wrench to compress the pistons.  It IS the procedure
shown in Bentley, yes it is shown --don't do that here.

Remove the caliper (13mm and 15mm open end), and it's mounting piece
(8mm hex), knock the rotor off (usually held tight by rust), remount the
caliper (hand tight), turn and press the piston in (all the way).  If it
doesn't go in with heavy hand pressure while turning, chances are the
piston is frozen --used calipers are 20-50, new are 80-100, dealer list
is 400+ from what I recall.  Re-assembly is the reverse of disassembly.
Be sure to check the ebrake cable and stop adjustment.

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you?  --Gary ('86's: 5ks&5ktq by the Hudson)