Re: Brakes done, wheel install?

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <Pine.SOL.3.91.981114164526.25472A-100000@apollo.kettering.edu> "Graydon D. Stuckey" writes:

> Congrats.  I did all four brakes yesterday on my 5KCSTQ.  Its alot of work.

Just recovering in the warm post-bath from doing the back end of the
ur-quattro.  The main objective was to finish off the caliper rebuild -
I also did all new disks, pads, seals and boots.

A real weirdo that I'll chase up on Monday - the seals in the caliper
kits were too small and both were chopped up by the pistons.  As it
happened, I'd had a damaged boot a couple of years back.  At the time,
I bought a kit but only used the boot and not the seal.  The seal from
_that_ kit worked perfectly, but the colour coding was completely
different.  Both packs had the same part number on them.

I owe my compliments to a company I cannot yet name.  Getting the
frame off the hub (two Allen screws) was a bitch.  I have never applied
such grossly excessive torque to an Allen key before and had it survive.
I looked at all the keys in the set, and at the blue clip they live in,
but I can't see a manufacturer's name.  Why would someone who produces a
tool that good not put their name on it?

> > All went decently well until the time came to put the wheel back on.
> > Getting it all lined up was insane... used to drive Saab 9000 (quiet down)
> > and they had a little nipple on the hub that you could hang the wheel on
> > while you were getting things started. Maybe a properly sized stud with a
> > slot in the end for a screw driver, put the stud in, hand the wheel, get a
>
> Audi actually supplied a plastic stud that did exactly that.  I found one
> in the trunk of a '91 200TQ in the junk yard once.

There's one in my tool kit.  I have tried (several times) to find a
part number - and if I ever do, I'll post it here in jubilation.

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