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Re: stripped piston adjustment screw - now what?
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Posted by Saana88 [Email] (#207) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Saana88) on Sun, 6 Aug 2006 21:23:38 Share Post by Email
In Reply to: stripped piston adjustment screw - now what?, Fing, Sun, 6 Aug 2006 11:44:11
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I've taken mine apart without pulling the pins a few times. I removed the whole thing (pad carrier bracket and caliper and rotor) as an assembly, pull the rotor out once it's free, and go to town that way. My issue is with the rebuilds I've been getting- they have been using odd-size pins (something like five and a half millimeters, for which I don't have a wrench, and I tried dad's inch-size collection too). Last time I got so annoyed I went to a junkyard and brought four of the correct size pins back with me with their 6.0 mm hex heads.
Most chain-store "brake" shops lost my business a long, long, long time ago.
"What in the hell kind of car is that?"
(me) It's a Saab (pronounced Sahhb)
"A Saaaab (nasal A) ?!?"
(me) I guess.
"What would you want to drive a German piece of crap like that fer?"
(I laugh and walk away)

Anyway, get the bracket off and put the pins in a vice (it helps to have replacements handy) and get 'em that way. Otherwise, a rebuilt caliper is around $40 most places.

Those adjusters are really dainty sometimes. I usually loosen them half a turn, squeeze the piston back until it bottoms against the stop, and then repeat the process until it's backed off. Expecting the teensy adjuster to have enough force to pull the whole piston back is too much.

Good luck.

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