Wheel cylinder replacement
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Nate
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Re: Wheel cylinder replacement
You can pull the spring back by hand, then grip the cable with some long nose pliers. I do this as the first step of reassembly. If the cables have got old rusty springs on you can often do it without the pliers
Re: Wheel cylinder replacement
put the whole back plate in a vice on bench ..easy to clean up and rebuild everything like new
Re: Wheel cylinder replacement
You have a vice?! On a bench?!
You're obviously spoiled, some of us have to do it on the car, by the roadside, in the rain, on a severe gradient! :)
Seriously, I once replaced all the brake pipes on my long wheelbase Land Rover under exactly those circumstances, not fun, I look back now and wonder how hell I did it and lived to tell the tale without being confined to the loony bin.
You're obviously spoiled, some of us have to do it on the car, by the roadside, in the rain, on a severe gradient! :)
Seriously, I once replaced all the brake pipes on my long wheelbase Land Rover under exactly those circumstances, not fun, I look back now and wonder how hell I did it and lived to tell the tale without being confined to the loony bin.
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Member number 928 (wish I had one)