So Cal V8
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Okay, so this post is born of a little frustration I am having with the rear calipers at the moment.
I am relying on those of you with more experience/common sense than me to help me out here...
I am trying to remove the rear calipers from my 1970 NADA 3500S - I am following the steps in the official Rover manual - at least I think I am.
In order to remove the caliper I must first remove the pads - so step 3 of the procedure for removing the pads says the following:
"Remove the clevis pin securing the hand brake link lever to the R.H. caliper."
That's it, that's step 3... What step 3 fails to do, is tell you how. The diagram is straightforward enough, and seems to make sense, but practically speaking the clevis pin is virtually inaccesible :cry: . It's covered in 40 years of road crap and in the most akward position possible.
You may have guessed that this is my first time tackling the rear calipers on the P6 - you would be correct.
Please share the collective knowledge of years of disassembling these things with me - is there a technique, or a tool or a method that makes it slightly less difficult?? A large scale drawing in crayon may help me, please don't use words with more than two syllables - the more you can dumb it down for me the better :?
I did not think many kind or charitable thoughts about those clever Rover engineering chappies who managed to reduce the unsprung weight with their awfully clever inboard disc brakes - help...
Thanks in advance.
I am relying on those of you with more experience/common sense than me to help me out here...
I am trying to remove the rear calipers from my 1970 NADA 3500S - I am following the steps in the official Rover manual - at least I think I am.
In order to remove the caliper I must first remove the pads - so step 3 of the procedure for removing the pads says the following:
"Remove the clevis pin securing the hand brake link lever to the R.H. caliper."
That's it, that's step 3... What step 3 fails to do, is tell you how. The diagram is straightforward enough, and seems to make sense, but practically speaking the clevis pin is virtually inaccesible :cry: . It's covered in 40 years of road crap and in the most akward position possible.
You may have guessed that this is my first time tackling the rear calipers on the P6 - you would be correct.
Please share the collective knowledge of years of disassembling these things with me - is there a technique, or a tool or a method that makes it slightly less difficult?? A large scale drawing in crayon may help me, please don't use words with more than two syllables - the more you can dumb it down for me the better :?
I did not think many kind or charitable thoughts about those clever Rover engineering chappies who managed to reduce the unsprung weight with their awfully clever inboard disc brakes - help...
Thanks in advance.