Re: [ST] st Digest, Vol 9, Issue 41

[Dan Wallander <newsgroup@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can use any brake cleaner available from auto parts stores and comes 
in spray cans.  Just be sure you use eye goggles as it's real nasty 
stuff.  Check the can you buy to make sure it's not going to attack your 
rubber brake parts.

I use a child's tooth brush to help loosen up the grunge on the pistons 
and flush it out with more brake cleaner.  If you accidentally pop the 
piston out of the caliper, you might as well do them all, you're going 
to be bleeding the system anyway.

For putting pistons back in the caliper, you shouldn't use any kind of 
lubricant other than clean brake fluid.  Do NOT use grease or other type 
of lubrication of any kind around the brakes.  Can't think of anything 
that would DEcrease your braking power more than grease on the pads or 
rotors.  Remember that brake fluid eats paint.

Dan Wallander
Albuquerque, NM


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>What do you clean the brake caliper pistons with? 
>Is it the brake cleaner that has been mentioned already or is it just a matter of blowing/wiping the grunge off? 
>Am I right in reading that no lubrication is applied to the pistons once they are cleaned?
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