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1. TR3 Front Brake Calipers (score: 1): Author: JPepper752@aol.com; Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 07:59:10 -0400; Top of the morning everyone. I'm restoring my TR3B, currently a basket case. I unpacked the front disk brake calipers a couple of days ago. The PO apparently pulled them off the car ten + years ago w; /html/triumphs/1995-08/msg00036.html (8,151 bytes)
2. Re: TR3 Front Brake Calipers (score: 1): Author: "IGander" <IGander@mathsoft.com>; Date: Wed, 02 Aug 95 14:43:43 EST; I have a rather negative suggestion i'm afraid. If the cylinders have been sitting in the calipers rusting for a long time they could well be too pitted to rebuild so perhaps it may be easier (but ex; /html/triumphs/1995-08/msg00037.html (8,620 bytes)
3. Re: TR3 Front Brake Calipers (score: 1): Author: Keith.Bennett@bbc.co.uk (Keith Bennett); Date: 02 Aug 95 14:46:38 EDT; Hydraulic pressure, IMHO is the best way to free siezed pistons. If you can't find a way of of rigging them up to a working master cylinder then I've heard that an airline may do the job. The importa; /html/triumphs/1995-08/msg00039.html (8,232 bytes)
4. Re: TR3 Front Brake Calipers (score: 1): Author: Marcus Tooze <tooze@vinny.cecer.army.mil>; Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 08:57:22 -0500; 1) Find a friend with a BIG compressor. Buy some rubber tips for his air gun. Then blow down the hole and see if they will pop. Use VERY high pressure. Keep your hands out of the way too! This will; /html/triumphs/1995-08/msg00040.html (8,919 bytes)
5. Re: TR3 Front Brake Calipers (score: 1): Author: CWNicholls@aol.com; Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 09:58:34 -0400; Call a caliper rebuilder, such as apple hydraulics (advert in Hemmings, I don't have the number here) and ask their advice. May be best to send them off for a rebuild! Clark; /html/triumphs/1995-08/msg00041.html (7,586 bytes)
6. Re: TR3 Front Brake Calipers (score: 1): Author: gschneid@nicmad.nicolet.com (Gary Schneider); Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 09:14:12 -0600; Jack Pepper wrote:>The pistons are protruding out of the cylinders Hope there was still a bit of fluid coating the inside of the calipers so the inner bore isn't rusted. A penetrant around the piston; /html/triumphs/1995-08/msg00045.html (9,118 bytes)
7. Re: TR3 Front Brake Calipers (score: 1): Author: paisley@boulder.nist.gov (Scott W. Paisley); Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 08:24:17 -0600; Marc-Air maybe, but then again, they had three planes grounded a few days ago. Maybe not. :-) I had a seized caliper on a '73 motorcycle a few years ago. I used a small brake line to connect the mast; /html/triumphs/1995-08/msg00047.html (8,129 bytes)
8. Re: TR3 Front Brake Calipers (score: 1): Author: Gregory Petrolati <gpetrola@prairienet.org>; Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 12:20:50 -0500 (CDT); Okay, I'll play the "dim Colonial"... What part of a mole shifts that it would require a special spanner to put things right?:-) I mean, them's critters... ain't they? Maybe it's the wrench you use t; /html/triumphs/1995-08/msg00049.html (8,802 bytes)
9. Re: TR3 Front Brake Calipers (score: 1): Author: paisley@boulder.nist.gov (Scott W. Paisley); Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 12:03:17 -0600; [..snip..] [..snip..] Actually the way I did this on they motorcycle caliper was somewhat cute. You see, that caliper is a little bit smaller than the TR3 caliper (I think) and it required something; /html/triumphs/1995-08/msg00052.html (9,603 bytes)
10. Re: TR3 Front Brake Calipers (score: 1): Author: Phil Willson <P.J.Willson@qmw.ac.uk>; Date: Thu, 03 Aug 1995 02:44:36 -0700; Then Greg Petrolati replied: Swedes is wrong, oh dim colonial, even if you're only acting!!. The Mole wrench was patented and is manufactured by M.Mole and Sons of somewhere in Wales. A brilliant to; /html/triumphs/1995-08/msg00059.html (9,476 bytes)
11. Re: TR3 Front Brake Calipers (score: 1): Author: Killjoy@aol.com; Date: Fri, 4 Aug 1995 01:31:22 -0400; other is Your caliper cylinders are in the same condition as the ones on my Spitfire... Many are suggesting using pressure and/or disassembly of the caliper to free up your stuck piston, but I plan t; /html/triumphs/1995-08/msg00090.html (9,957 bytes)
12. Re: TR3 Front Brake Calipers (score: 1): Author: Keith.Bennett@bbc.co.uk (Keith Bennett); Date: 04 Aug 95 09:53:31 EDT; Micheal, I'd be cautious about using heat as the calipers have internal rubber seals where the two halves join together (the bit that you're never supposed to take apart). Keith Bennett. E-mail Keith; /html/triumphs/1995-08/msg00093.html (9,490 bytes)

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