Howdy,


I've been busy today. I replaced the clutch slave cylinder, front calipers, brake master cylinder, front rotors, pads all the way around, and all brake lines. Everything went pretty well, but the brake resivoir leaked when I was using my pressure bleeder. Now I have an Exxon Valdez size spot of DOT-4 in my driveway.

Had a couple of questions:

(1) The FAG clutch slave cylinder I took out had busted the seal on the bottom (and that was an exercize in putting your hand into tight places). This had obviously been replaced before, but I wonder if something is misadjusted to make the piston and pushrod pop out the end??? I put in a Febi which looked like a much better unit.

(2) I could not no matter how hard I tried get the rear brake disks off. I didn't have the parking brake on, but suspect that the parking brake shoes are hanging up. Any thoughts on how to get them off? How do you release the parking brake shoes if that is what it is?

Thanks much.

Sholin

p.s. The hydraulic problems I ran into were due to VERY BAD maintenance by the previous owner. If you haven't bled your brakes/clutch in a while you should or you'll get to replace all this stuff too.

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What else, '73 MB 280 SEL (Lt Blue)
Daily driver: '84 190D 2.2 5 spd.