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Subject:Re: Der Brakes (Die Brakes? Das Brakes?)
Date:Fri, 20 Jan 95 10:19:20 MST

--RGOLEN@umassd.edu said:--
> Quick suggestion for pushing the pistons back in the callipers. I
> found a 6" "C" clamp at a yard sale once. Whenever I need to push
> the pistons back into the calliper, I put the stationary end of the
> clamp on the calliper opposite the piston and the screw part of
> the clamp onto or into the piston and then crank away! It pushes
> in even the most stubborn piston...and does not chew up the
> surface of the piston like a pair of pliers or grips might.

This is what I've always done, and I has never let me down, except
for the time I worked on a friend's Subaru, which we found later
wants the pistons screwed back in instead of pushed........

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