Re: Brake Tool

[Chris Newbold <cnewbold@transarc.com>]

Al Powell wrote:
> There is a generic brake piston (Lisle is one I've seen) tool
> available at most import parts stores for about $10 - no problem.
> It's shaped like a small cube, with a socket inset on each side and
> different kinds of ears on each side.

I bought this tool when I first attempted the rear pads
on my '93 90. It doesn't fit. Of the sides with only two "ears"
(the Girlings have only two holes) none of them were far enough
apart to fit... :-(


It was 12:30am and I had both sides torn apart ready to fit the
new rotors and pads, it was raining, and I was headed to Watkins
Glen the next day... I spent about an hour destroying various
hacksaws and drill bits trying to "adjust" the fool thing by
removing two "ears" from one of the four-"eared" sides.

It worked, in the end, barely.

Lisle makes a different tool, a disc with two "ears" on it and
a hole for a ratchet extension in the center... 

-Chris
1993 90CS 63k