help caliper removal !!!
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BETTYBRICK
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help caliper removal !!!
Help please, trying to change wheel bearing but cant undo the 19mm bolts on caliper! Daft question (maybe) but are they reverse thread ?
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BETTYBRICK
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Re: help caliper removal !!!
Don't panic everyone I've done it !!!!! Brut force and ignorance wins the day
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Re: help caliper removal !!!
I'm sure you didn't do it but it's easy to think you are undoing caliper bolts when you are actually tightening them......because the bolts come from behind you have to THINK! to get the correct direction lol.....
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Re: help caliper removal !!!
If that was tight to get off, wait until you get to the centre nut
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Re: help caliper removal !!!
If that was tight to get off, wait until you get to the centre nut
rear hub nut , not the front one?
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Re: help caliper removal !!!
billy739 wrote:If that was tight to get off, wait until you get to the centre nut
rear hub nut , not the front one?
Oops
Got a new van, but it's a 165bhp T4 [shock horror] Accurate LPG Station map here