| [ Total Views: 379 | Total Replies: 0 | Thread Id: 26058 ] |
|
|
 AWOL
Learner Dubber
Posts: 14
Threads: 8
Registered: January 5th, 2004
Member Is Offline
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
|
| posted on July 17th, 2004 at 11:43 AM |
|
|
URGENT HELP - Installing disc pads
hello
Have new disc pads ready to install... for my 96 Golf ... do I need to remove the calipers completely or should the pads just clip out?
Thx, Chris
|
|
|
68AutoBug
A.k.a.: Lee Noonan
Aircooled Master
Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138% - YIKES --
Posts: 11654
Threads: 449
Registered: August 31st, 2002
Member Is Offline
Location: SCONE in UPPER HUNTER VALLEY NSW
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Yellow
Mood: Really Mentally Ill - all of the time -
|
| posted on July 17th, 2004 at 01:32 PM |
|
|
Even on Beetles they just come out after removing one or two pins in the calipers.....
So there is something holding them in...
Split Pin or something...... I can't remember what held the pads in a Magna a had....
Before pulling the old Pads off... put something flat like a large flat screwdriver or a flat pry bar etc... between the old Pads and push the pads
apart so the new ones which are Much thicker will fit in the space......
[You have to push the brake pistons back in]
Lee --
- [size=4]Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY--- [/size]
|
|
|
 vw54
Super Administrator
Always Waiting 4 Friday
Posts: 16723
Threads: 378
Registered: August 26th, 2002
Member Is Offline
Location: Sunny Sydney
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
Mood: Oval resto ongoing
|
| posted on July 17th, 2004 at 06:40 PM |
|
|
You need to undo one end of the caliper and swing it up so as to allow the pads to be pulled out.
Before you remove the pads get a long screw driver and lever the pads back to ush the pistons back int othe caliper housings.
|
|
|
