REAR CALIPER PARKING BRAKE DISASSEMBLY

[billwill]

Hi there
Not wishing to appear think but can you please tell me what a slide hammer is as I've not come across that name before.

Basically a rod with a stop on it and a heavy weight with a hole in it so that the weight slides on the rod. At the end opposite the stop a thread onto which you can fasten various adaptors.

You fasten it to the object you want to pull & then slide the weight hard against the stop.

[AnthonyBelcher]

Thank you Bill you can tell I'm an accountant and not an engineer, but I'm learning.
Regards

[lotocone]

Allan,

Thanks, I'll follow your separate restoration thread. I'm glad that you brought this up about the pin removal. I don't think it has been covered before with pictures.

It will help a lot to have the calipers split when you are cleaning and rebuilding. The instructions in Brian Buckland's book helped me with the rebuild.

Bob

[CBUEB1771]

can you please tell me what a slide hammer is

Slide hammers are available in many sizes. Here is a demonstration with a fairly large slide hammer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY93VZ-VO2Q

[AnthonyBelcher]

Thanks Russ. I've got the picture as they say. That's a beast of a slide hammer.
Regards

[pharriso]

One more vote for the slide hammer!!

At first I was foxed by how to remove the pivot pins, but thankfully searched for & found this thread!

I first tried the screw/spacer/washer method; took me an hour to remove the first pin; stripped two screws on the 2nd pin & could not shift it!

then a friend offered a slide hammer:

Removed the other 3 pins in 5 minutes!!