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Re: Replacing Rear Wheel Cylinders

To: "Dave & M" <rusd@velocitus.net>, "Ned Smith"
Subject: Re: Replacing Rear Wheel Cylinders
From: "John Snyder" <helyjohn@cablespeed.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 18:14:29 -0800
Ned, as Dave says, there is a retaining tab.  Don't know what model you are 
working on, but on BN7/BT7 cars, the "tab" is actually 2 very tiny tabs, one 
on each leg of the bottom "U".  Very hard to see.

John Snyder
>
> The two retaining plates are locked together with a retaining tab. Thus 
> the need to "prise the retaining plate and spring plate apart" to unlock 
> the tab before driving the plate out.
>
> Dave Russell
>
> Ned Smith wrote:
>> The shop manual says "prise the retaining plate and spring plate apart". 
>> I
>> don't see that. The picture in the Moss catalog looks like two U shaped
>> pieces pushed together to form an enclosing rectangle. I tried to drive 
>> one
>> plate across the other but nothing happened. Maybe I need to tap harder?




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