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Re: brake fluid (2)

To: <samuelsma@aol.com>, "6pack" <6pack@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: brake fluid (2)
From: "Alan Salvatore" <6parts@charter.net>
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 20:10:19 -0400
You do not have  to remove the caliper to change the pads.
I used a small C-clamp to push the piston in.

Although , two weeks later , I removed the caliper to put new pistons in.

Al Salvatore
www.triumphowners.com/624

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <samuelsma@aol.com>
To: <6pack@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 7:19 PM
Subject: brake fluid (2)


> Listers:
>
> Thanks for your comments on getting the pistons back into the calipers to 
> allow pad installation (anything has to be better than using toothed Vice 
> Grips!).  When I read the responses, it appeared to me that some (all?) of 
> you are removing the calipers when changing pads.  Is that correct?  I 
> don't know if I could fit a C-clamp into the area, because I did not 
> remove the caliper.  There isn't much room between the disk and the 
> caliper piston to fit a clamp into.  On my Porsche, pads slide in and out 
> without caliper removal.  Should I remove the caliper on the 6 when 
> changing pads?
>
> Michael




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