help with changing read break pads

1. WILLIE-SAXOVTS Frequent Poster Joined: Sep 2009 edinburgh Posts: 536 Now vts , 106 gti, mr2 ,vts x4 , rst fiesta/escort

   #1 8th March 2010, 07:14

   See when changing rear break pads ....do you have to take the caliper off or can you just let the handbrake off and get a large screwdriver and push the piston back ?
   
   
   would that give you enough access to slide the new pads in ?
2. WILLIE-SAXOVTS Frequent Poster Joined: Sep 2009 edinburgh Posts: 536 Now vts , 106 gti, mr2 ,vts x4 , rst fiesta/escort

   #2 8th March 2010, 12:45

   anyone ?
3. grumpypants Regular Poster Joined: Jun 2009 Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan Posts: 429 Vauxhall Corsa 1.0

   #3 8th March 2010, 14:40

   You don't have to take the whole caliper off. The calper piston can be retracted by turning the piston in a clockwise direction (use a square bar but a screwdriver can be used).
4. WILLIE-SAXOVTS Frequent Poster Joined: Sep 2009 edinburgh Posts: 536 Now vts , 106 gti, mr2 ,vts x4 , rst fiesta/escort

   #4 8th March 2010, 15:08

   thank you very much !