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Old 09-04-2010, 09:05 PM
tlynch tlynch is offline
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Less work! Woo hoo!

The rear pads were in pretty good shape, I think, so I just cleaned stuff off, greased the backs and put them back in.



Yup. Thats a brake.



Note how the two spring pieces criss-cross, and the long one goes under the pins.



No picture for this, but you have to drive those two pins out. I used a nail set as a punch.

With pins out, the springs fall off, and it is easy to slide the pads out.


No picture of this either, but a pair of channel lock pliers works great for squeezing each pad and the outside of the caliper to retract the piston. Gotta do that for both pads. The fixed caliper has a piston on each side.

By the way, I brushed a TON of brake dust off and out of the caliper.

Tom
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Last edited by tlynch; 09-05-2010 at 03:22 AM.
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