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Rear Caliper Removal and Rotor Replacement 200 1990

posted by  EdM. on  Fri Jan 4 05:53 CST 2008
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I'm about to do the rear rotors on my '90 240 Wagon. This is the first car I've ever owned (I think) that doesn't have flexible lines attached directly to the rotors (they have to be there somewhere to allow for the suspension travel, and I haven't looked for them yet -- where are they, in by the differential?, with hard lines running along the axle?), so that you can just leave the rotors connected and hang them out of the way. Of course, the benefit of that is that you don't have to bleed the brakes when you're done.

So my question is this: I have gotten the calipers out of the way before by simply bending the solid brakelines, but of course, I don't want to incur undue risk of braking them, because that would suck royally. So what do we all think: is this an okay idea, or should I just break down and remove the calipers completely, and deal with bleeding the brakes when I'm done?

-EdM.
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'90 240DL Wagon 'Lola' -- '72 1800ES 'Galadriel'






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