Re: 4000 Rear Brakes/Center Bearing Help!

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

In message <OF3C2553BD.5FF46C3A-ON87256766.00524C75@mail.netzero.net> darrenwall@netzero.net writes:

> 1.  Is there some secret to compressing the rear brake cylinders, or are
> mine just frozen?

Yes.  It screws in, clockwise.  Copiously covered in the archives.

> 2.  How do I remove the parking brake cable from the caliper?  Or is this
> not needed, i.e., when I buy new calipers, will they have cables on them?

Compress the lever, get the swaged-on eye out of the lever, and the
cable sheath is just a press fit in the caliper.  Sometimes you have to
use something like a pin drift to knock it out.

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 Phil Payne
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