After two days of soaking bolts in penetrating oil and then half an hour of bashing spanner, callipers and bolt heads – the brake calliper has been removed from my Type 2.
Initially I had planned to leave the brake line connected and just squeeze the pistons back in. As you can see from the state of this G-clamp, this didn’t work. Instead I twisted a cast metal clapm until it was completely useless. One piston has moved in about half its travel but the other doesn’t want to know.
So the campervan sits back on it’s wheels but with no brakes in the front drivers side. The calliper will go to the local VW specialist to be investigated and possibly replaced.
I suppose after all this hassle at least I know that there was a problem. I just hadn’t expected it to be a faulty calliper.
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