I remember putting pads on a Subaru that belonged to a buddy of mine. it
used the screwed in pistons - first time I saw such a thing and it had
me confused for a bit trying to get the pistons back in the calipers.
Had to have been around '85 - we were still in high school. So Subaru
used that system in the early '80s.
Eddie
1971 Midget - "Bebop"
Chris King wrote:
>My '91 318is and my '89 Camry have rear discs that work like the F150's -
>small drum cast into the rear disc in which resides parking brake shoes.
>'91-'98 Saturns (and others, I'm sure) had a rear caliper piston with a screw
>thread on it, so that pulling on the handbrake cable turned the piston and
>squeezed the disc. I guess the screw thread was pitched such that fluid
>pressure would push and rotate the piston out in "normal" braking. Apparently
>either GM figured it out or stole it from somebody...
>
>-=Chris
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