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sparkydave
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I was attacking my leaky rear brake cylinders this weekend, and found the old ones were a little too pitted to be worth rebuilding. Good news is new ones from Moss weren't expensive, but the circlips that hold them are backordered. I figured since I had to fight with the old rusty ones I would just get new ones.
Here's the lowdown: The old ones had the holes oriented straight up on the backplate, so the snap ring pliers were interfering with the bleeders and the brake pipes. I took the pipes and bleeders off to get a better grip on them, but is there a specific reason to have them oriented that way? Maybe it's a silly question since you would most likely be removing the circlips to remove the whole brake cylinder and hence the pipes, but any problems with orienting them a little differently?
Here's the lowdown: The old ones had the holes oriented straight up on the backplate, so the snap ring pliers were interfering with the bleeders and the brake pipes. I took the pipes and bleeders off to get a better grip on them, but is there a specific reason to have them oriented that way? Maybe it's a silly question since you would most likely be removing the circlips to remove the whole brake cylinder and hence the pipes, but any problems with orienting them a little differently?
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