Re: Brake Tool

[Elliott Potter <epotter@abraxis.com>]

Chris Newbold wrote:
> 
> 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...
 
Yes!!!  And this fits, I hope?

> -Chris
> 1993 90CS 63k

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Elliott

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