Undoing Caliper bolts
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Undoing Caliper bolts
2006 Cayenne base model, manual transmission, 450+ km
Replacing rear rotors and can't get the caliper bolts undone. I'll go buy a breaker bar with a swivel head, but is there any other method to crack these bolts and not damage the triple square heads?
Thanks for any suggestions.
Trevor
Replacing rear rotors and can't get the caliper bolts undone. I'll go buy a breaker bar with a swivel head, but is there any other method to crack these bolts and not damage the triple square heads?
Thanks for any suggestions.
Trevor
Three Wheelin'
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From: NW Indiana
There wasn't room for my impact, but a breaker bar and small cheater pipe got mine out no problem.
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Unless I'm missing something here, you're now left with the equivalent of snapping the head off a seized bolt and the nightmare of trying to remove it. After removing the pads, is there enough play in caliper to slide if off of what's left of the bolt?
There wasn't room for my impact, but a breaker bar and small cheater pipe got mine out no problem.
There wasn't room for my impact, but a breaker bar and small cheater pipe got mine out no problem.
One I had the caliper off the car it was easy to get the stub bolt remnants out. Penetrating oil, gentle heating with a propane torch, and a pipe wrench got them out.
Every suspension bolt on this car was seized up, I had to cut the front LCA eccentric bolts with a sawzall.
