Just for giggles I checked my 68-79 Van Bentley, since late Bays used
the same calipers as early Vanagons, AFAIK. They show the caliper split
and 2 small o-rings between the halves, but say not to split unless
there is a leak there. They also give better directions for the
piston/seal rebuild, including the helpful info left out of the Vanagon
Bentley that you need to do the pistons one at a time. I was wrong about
the late  Bentley, it does show the caliper rebuild for all years
starting on page 47.4.

Mark

neil N wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:41 AM, mark drillock <mdrillock@cox.net> wrote:
>> The more recent versions of the Bentley don't cover caliper rebuilding.
>>
>> The older versions do, as do the Haynes manuals. None show separating the
>> halves of the early type and the Haynes makes special warning to never do
>> so.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>
>
> Thanks for that Mark. Funny. I was thinking earlier about what Haynes
> had to say on that matter as I recalled something along those lines.
>
> For anyone w/o a Haynes:
>
>>From Step 6 of Part 5 "Front brake caliper - overhaul":
>
> "Under no circumstances should the two halves of the caliper be separated"
>
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