Slacker's Guide to Fixing Up the 68 Notch

4spdragtop said

Well Scott, "when" has arrived for me and my KH setup. I glossed over your last page and will reference/check in to apply AND receive motivation.
Pistons are stuck in caliper bores and was wondering why you didn't separate the caliper halves earlier on in the rebuild?
Just curious...
Keep up the great work!
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Hey Steve! I believe if you split the calipers before removing the pistons, and you use an air or grease pressure removal method, you would have to put a plug in the crossover hole on the one side to be able to hold pressure to remove the pistons. The other side would not make a difference since the fluid path dead ends there. Other than that splitting them certainly made things easier for most everything else. If they are really really stuck, I do like the thought of the poster who said he tapped and threaded the pistons, and basically mechanically force them out. Certainly would have to split the calipers to do that.

Yeah, I need to get to work on the car. Been training not so hard for an upcoming reality show called "The Real Slackers of FABO", could be on this fall...