Forgive me if you wrote this in your blog but.....

Turn the wheels (i.e. hard to R to access bolts on d-side), wheels on
ground brake on etc., crack the calliper bolts loose. This worked for me.
That said.....

On the p-side, I managed to remove the radius rod, UCA, only to find that I
hadn't loosened the p-side calliper bolts enough. They were just "cracked"
loose. Scissor jack under hub and angle iron between upper forward end of
knuckle, long wrench, allowed me to ease those bolts off.

Not recommended though.

Neil.

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:

> posting this to remind others not to be an idiot like me when doing front
> brake job.
>
> http://shufti.wordpress.com/2012/09/19/vanagon-front-brake-fandango/
>
>
> I should have done better, but perhaps showing my mistakes will help others
>
> alistair
>

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